Category Archives: theology

No Second Rate Sons

For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, [...]

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Never Forget the Meta Narrative

Things tend to get lost in all that life throws my way. Between two jobs, studying, family, and all the other odds and ends of a common week I tend to lose sight of the greater picture of what God is doing. And it’s when I start forgetting that gloriously massive story that I begin [...]

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Not a person – a people.

“God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven. Rather, he is creating a people among whom he can live and who, in their life together, will reproduce God’s life and character.” – Gordon Fee – Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God

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Incarnation

God Himself; crushed, crumpled and shrunken down yet no less God than before. Dethroning himself from heaven to slip into fingers, skin, and bones to swallow water, sin, and air and clothe himself with humility hung with mortal form. Both descending and ascending as angels on Jacob’s stair saving men by becoming man crowned and [...]

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