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The Simply Jesus Facebook Page
A few weeks ago, I started a Page for Simply Jesus. You can find it here . The Page is where I post every day a short meme or quote. The...
Derek Leman
Sep 191 min read
UPDATE #1: The Simply Jesus Project
About 25% done with the first draft (I announced this project a month ago). Have written: Introduction People putting a spin on the...
Derek Leman
Aug 102 min read
Evangelical Weakness on the Gospel
I just listened to a random sermon from the nearest church to my house in Kennesaw, Georgia. I listened to one and only one sermon. And...
Derek Leman
Jun 173 min read
Reconciled in Christ
Yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond...
Derek Leman
Mar 155 min read
Your Jesus Is Too Small
On that day you will know that I [am] in My Father, and you [are] in Me, and I in you. –John 14:20 NASB The albino rocker Larry Norman...
Derek Leman
Mar 56 min read
The World Needs Paul
When I started the Reimagining Paul blog, I began with this paragraph: A problem of perception exists between Christianity and society....
Derek Leman
Mar 16 min read
Deliverance (Justification)
Since before time, God has been for us—completely for us, for all of us, invested enough to take on our condition and lift us up out of...
Derek Leman
Feb 265 min read
He Grants What He Commands
And you were dead in your offenses and sins, in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the...
Derek Leman
Feb 55 min read
The Father Draws You
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. –John 1:4 NASB Life. We have it in limited quantities—eighty years worth, give...
Derek Leman
Feb 35 min read
Chosen Before Time
We generally learn about life through the window of our experiences. We discover things about relationships, health issues, career...
Derek Leman
Jan 304 min read
God's Acts for Us
I am not pretending that this list and these definitions are rigorously derived from a long study, with definitions honed by voluminous...
Derek Leman
Jan 262 min read
Romans 5:12-17 Commentary
The Adam story—which need not be interpreted literally—is about the human condition. We might imagine that we are a rational species...
Derek Leman
Dec 17, 20244 min read
Paul, the Torah Genius
In my earliest days of being a follower of Christ—I was a college student—I was a devoted reader and learner of the writings of Paul. But...
Derek Leman
Dec 6, 202410 min read
Reading Romans 5:1-2
It's tragic. Pretty much no one understands Romans 1-4 and so by the time readers get to Romans 5-8, their eyes are glazed over. If Bible...
Derek Leman
Oct 16, 20246 min read
It's Not Free If It's a Discount
Does the Gospel come at a reduced price or is it free? Although Christians will talk about "God's gift of salvation," the shocking truth...
Derek Leman
Sep 22, 20246 min read
People Are Neither Rational Nor Self-Interested
When it comes to societal culture—or even individual human nature—is there such a thing as normal? Insanity is, perhaps, a spectrum. Case...
Derek Leman
Sep 18, 20247 min read
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