Salvation

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

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

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.
God's Command to Save You

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

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.
Why Lent Offers us a Curious Kind of Joy

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.
- Easter
- Lent
- Work of Christ
- Joy
- Repentance
- Jesus Christ
- Practical Theology
- Salvation
- Church Seasons
Is Jesus the Only Way?

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

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.
A Helmet of Promises

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.
When Bible Reading Becomes Boring.

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.
Spitting on Jesus

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.”
No Salvation Without Works

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.

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