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September 2006

September 25, 2006

Romans 13 and Government

Wright's introductory comments about Romans 13:1-7 are so suggestive, I want to take two days...

September 22, 2006

Regarding your enemies

Wright agrees with the majority: Romans 12:14-21 shifts to a concern with outsiders, and evidently...

September 21, 2006

Random Commands

In Romans 12:9-13 Paul provides what NT Wright calls a "more general list of ways...

September 20, 2006

Spiritual Gifts: A List?

I have a question for you today about the various lists of spiritual gifts in...

September 19, 2006

Disciplined Thinking

Romans 12:3 "stresses," according to N.T. Wright, "the role of disciplined thinking as being at...

September 18, 2006

Non-conformity

According to N.T. Wright, Romans 12:2 "stands alongside [12:1] as the head of the whole...

September 15, 2006

Transforming Sacrifice

At least once a semester, often more than that, I am asked if the earliest...

September 14, 2006

Inscrutable

Paul knows God's ways are unsearchable and inscrutable, and it behooves each one of us...

September 13, 2006

Irrevocable

God's promise to Israel -- that covenant promise that begins at Genesis 12 -- is,...

September 12, 2006

All Israel 2

Who is Israel in the "all Israel" will be saved (Rom. 11:26)? There are three...

September 11, 2006

All Israel

"And so all Israel will be saved." Romans 11:26 has created more than its share...

September 08, 2006

Be Careful!

Paul has a concern that his Gentile readers will become proud of their inclusion in...

September 07, 2006

Paul’s Missionary Strategy

Paul's missionary strategy amazes us at this juncture: his mission to the Gentiles is designed...

September 06, 2006

The Point of Israel’s Stumbling

Paul interprets Israel's "stumbling" as not completely permanent. Israel's present stumbling over the stumbling-stone (Christ)...

September 05, 2006

Hardening

Wright explains what Paul means by "hardening" in Romans 11:7: "What then? Israel failed to...

September 04, 2006

Remnant of Israel

"Has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite..." (Rom. 11:1)....

September 01, 2006

So if the gospel is for all…

Then we need preachers of the gospel! That's how I read Romans 10:11-17. What is...

August 2006

August 31, 2006

The Generous Lord of Generous Orthodoxy

You just have to be impressed by the number of times in Romans Paul pulls...

August 30, 2006

Confessing

What does "If you confess with your lips Jesus Christ as Lord..." mean? Here Paul...

August 29, 2006

Heart Stuff in Romans 10

The Law comes to its goal in the Messiah; one is place "in" the Messiah...

August 28, 2006

The End of the Law

What does Paul mean when he says in Romans 10:4 that Christ is the "end...

August 25, 2006

The Zeal of Knowledge

Paul's heart is for "Israel" (not specifically named in Rom. 10:1-4 but implicit); his prayer...

August 24, 2006

The Stumbling Stone

Paul's logic is patently clear: Israel did not obtain righteousness (as a status before God)...

August 23, 2006

Not my people: Undone!

The judgment of Exile, when "My people" became "Not my people" is undone when God...

August 22, 2006

Who indeed are you?

No one could dispute the force of Paul's heavy hand in Romans 9:19-24. After advocating...

August 21, 2006

Who is “Israel”?

Let us just say that a friend of mine gently reminded me (on the phone...

August 18, 2006

Paul’s Calvinism

If this does breathe the air that eventually became Calvinism, I don't know what does:...

August 17, 2006

Promise Line

Paul begins exploring his major issue -- God's faithfulness and the place of Israel in...

August 16, 2006

Israel’s privilege

Paul's anguish over Israel, though not stated until 10:1 and 11:11 and 11:23, is that...

August 15, 2006

Romans 9–11

"Everything," Tom Wright says in his intro to Romans 9--11, "about Romans 9-11 is controversial.......