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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
Announcement: The Simply Jesus Project
I should know better than to announce a project. I have a spotty track record when it comes to finishing them. It’s not that I have a...

Derek Leman
Jul 153 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
Redemption
My favorite commentary on Ruth is by a Jewish scholar, Tamara Cohn Eskanazi (who was completing work started by Tikva Frymer-Kensky)....

Derek Leman
Mar 285 min read
Sanctification
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to...

Derek Leman
Mar 226 min read
The Music of Two Worlds
Paul says that we exist in two worlds simultaneously. We live in the Old Reality where Sin and Death reign and human beings are...

Derek Leman
Mar 202 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
New Birth (Regeneration)
Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' –John 3:7 NASB Maybe we humans are not so bad. Could it be we simply...

Derek Leman
Feb 85 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
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
God Speaks
This blog (in case you’re new here) opposes the common understanding of Christianity known as “justification theory.” The God of...

Derek Leman
Dec 19, 20246 min read
Initial Thoughts: Karl Barth on Romans
I just got a copy of Karl Barth's commentary on Romans (in English since I don't read German). I have read only the preface and his...

Derek Leman
Nov 30, 20245 min read
Romans 5:6-8 Commentary
I will be posting a full commentary on Romans 5-8 here on "Reimagining Paul." My plan is to publish this as a concise, handy paperback...

Derek Leman
Nov 24, 20243 min read
God Behind the Scenes
With unseen power, a seed breaks through the soil. A flourishing plant, starting from almost nothing, builds itself from minerals in the...

Derek Leman
Nov 2, 20247 min read
21 Affirmations on Faith, the Gospel, and Personal Transformation
The purpose of this essay is simply to put out some affirmations without proof or further explanation. Some of them will be controversial...

Derek Leman
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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