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13 mins read|06/01/18Many Christians are worried—perhaps legitimately—that the state is a short step away from turning the Law of God into hate speech and silencing the legal preaching of God’s Word.
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13 mins read|05/29/18As I was reading Romans 7 today, I was reminded of a pivotal scene in one of my favorite movies, As Good As it Gets.
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1 min|05/16/18Daniel and Erick spend this entire episode breaking down Peter's sermon and the religious leader's response. Law and gospel are being proclaimed full strength.
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1 min read|05/04/18Our goal is to proclaim the genuine good news—that’s what “Gospel” means—of Christ’s forgiveness for you. We do not offer you better tips, techniques or checklists. Instead, You Are Forgiven is sermons by faithful pastors who will clearly show how you cannot be forgiven by your own efforts, no matter how well you do on your homework, your checklist of tasks. But they will also show how you are actually and already forgiven because Jesus has done all that is needed, for you!
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15 mins read|04/26/18God’s Law is a death sentence for us sinners. There is no winning beneath the Law of God.
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9 mins read|04/25/18The Gospel predominates when hearers receive the saving gifts of Christ as God’s final word to them.
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17 mins read|04/09/18There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.
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8 mins read|02/28/18As sinful humans, we are adept at taking what God gives as gift and making it into a work. Nowhere is this made more evident than in the universally misunderstood doctrine of sanctification.
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12 mins read|01/04/18While I was still an over-eager seminarian the professor warned me, “Mr. Riley, this is exciting stuff.
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10 mins read|01/04/18Freedom from the Law does not come through personal perfection, it comes through Jesus Christ. The answer is not a better you, but a you who is united to God through Christ.
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10 mins read|11/14/17You are made new by the eternal satisfaction for sin in Christ, by the precious treasure at God’s right hand.
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9 mins read|10/12/17God created Israel to be the vessel into which he would place both his Law and his Son.
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