The end of the Law is nothing new. Moses saw it coming. Remember earlier I described the Law and the Prophets as God’s Sacred Space Maintainer? In today’s passage, Romans 10:1-13, Christ is the end of the law, not because He did away with the concept of being law-abiding. No, He is the end of […]
Yes, I’m deliberately avoiding the theological debates associated with salvation in these devotionals. It’s my goal at Seminary Gal to make the theological understandable and it’s better to do this in articles rather than devotionals. Perhaps it’s best to start with the bottom line of Romans 9:19-33: God is free to do what He wants. […]
We have a dog named Harley. Oftentimes, he’ll walk right in front of me, looking back for cues, and try to anticipate where I’m going. It’s annoying since he doesn’t know what I’m doing or where I’m headed. How can he possibly lead the way? I wonder if God gets frustrated with us like that. […]
Have you ever grieved for members of your family who had every opportunity to live well and yet they took all their resources and squandered them? Maybe a wayward child to whom you gave an education and great parenting, providing a good example and maybe even a religious upbringing? But being autonomous, that person chose […]
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom […]
What can you have but never hold? What can you possess while it is invisible, but once you see it, it’s gone? It sounds like a riddle, but it’s hope. The hope of salvation is something we can possess but we do not see it, except by faith. Hope sustains us between our first believing […]
Chapel Worship Guide for Sunday 9 AM—March 10, 2013 The Nemmers Family Chapel at Advocate Condell Prelude Welcome—Barbara Shafer, Christ Church Highland Park Worship in Song: Scripture Reading (Old Testament): Isaiah 6:8-13 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, […]
OK, I’ll admit it: I struggle with “the environmentalist movement.” On one hand, I try to be a good steward of the environment, have been a frugal consumer and was a cautious recycler long before it was fashionable. I am a trained horticulturist and have a deep and abiding love of nature. On the other […]
The Holy Spirit is, in my view, the best kept secret of evangelical Christianity. Whether it’s out of our fear of being perceived as too charismatic, or that He goes by the name Holy Ghost and this seems remarkably unscientific, or maybe just that we can’t see the spiritual, we treat the Holy Spirit like […]
Condemnation is not anything we want to experience. The word conveys judgment and we’re on the wrong end of it. We’d rather be found not guilty, but the truth is that each of us is guilty before God. We’re guilty so long as we’re standing there as our own defense team with our life’s works […]
