TOPIC INDEXSalvation (11)

  1. How God Loves Us: The Sound of Salvation, Zephaniah 3:17

    book
    02/14/23
    18 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Zephaniah has given us something more visceral to help us understand the love of God: the sound of salvation.

  2. I Don't Want Eternal Life, It's Too Long

    book
    01/27/23
    20 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    I think the problem with the idea of eternity is that we do not have any direct experience of it, but we encounter enough of its possibility to be unsettling.

  3. God's Command to Save You

    book
    03/29/22
    6 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    The promise here is that God is present with us in our troubles, issuing commands to save us before we ask. God does not ignore our suffering and cries.

  4. Christmas in Isaiah: The Government's Welfare and the Lamb

    book
    12/24/21
    17 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    The best we would have to look forward to, without Jesus, is a society dedicated to addressing problems and working through them.

  5. Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

    book
    03/09/21
    12 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.

  6. Is Jesus the Only Way?

    book
    12/29/20
    22 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    To the extent that God is exclusive by offering salvation only through Christ we can say he is more gracious than other systems because he takes on our guilt upon himself while gifting us his righteousness.

  7. God’s Coloring Book: Mr. Sketch, Drunken Sailors, and All Things New

    book
    11/18/20
    11 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    God is coloring over your sin and making you fragrant; he is making you righteous in his sight. The old is gone, forever covered over by this new work.

  8. A Helmet of Promises

    book
    03/10/20
    7 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    What I have come to see is that while anyone can make a conscious decision to walk away from God or deny him, a person can’t accidentally lose his or her salvation.

  9. When Bible Reading Becomes Boring.

    book
    10/16/19
    14 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    If the gospel is promise that means it is essentially relational. It stands that the nature of any promise is that it's only as good as the one who issues it.

  10. Spitting on Jesus

    book
    01/24/17
    15 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    Last year, a friend I follow tweeted, “Calling yourself a sinner is spitting on all the work that Jesus did to make you a saint.”

  11. No Salvation Without Works

    book
    07/06/16
    16 mins
    By Bruce Hillman
    One of the interesting things about Paul’s writings that is not noticed enough is that Paul doesn’t really have an “application” section.