Justification, Deification and Faith Justification is a topic that has been discussed and debated throughout the history of the Christian church since the time of Augustine, but most particularly from the period of the Reformation until today. There are different models used to illustrate the doctrines and widely differing opinions on those models. This is…
The distinction between the Law and Gospel of God is one that has been fraught with disagreement and misinterpretation for a very long time, perhaps even since the beginning of the church. It is easy to understand why, not simply because of the difficulty in grasping what each of those words mean, but also because…
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. In the very face of our enemies, God prepares for us a feast. Who are our enemies? Pain, loss, fear. Worldliness, resentment, anger. Failure, abandonment, illness. Death. And yet, our God looks in the faces…
Who is Jesus and why does he matter? It is perhaps the most significant issue we can deal with and it is a question set that we wrestle with, if we are lucky, for the rest of our lives. Jesus significance lies in his being who he is, both fully human, fully divine and, as…
The doctrine of the Trinity is a doctrine that provides us with a road map of how we can speak about God. It comes from scripture and its identification of the God in whom we believe is directly from the Apostolic witness found in the biblical narrative. In a world full of false deities that…
Shepherdess Writes 