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

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...

Paul says that we exist in two worlds simultaneously. We live in the Old Reality where Sin and Death reign and human beings are...

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...

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...

When I started the Reimagining Paul blog, I began with this paragraph: A problem of perception exists between Christianity and society....

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...

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...

And you were dead in your offenses and sins,  in which you previously walked  according to the course of this world,  according to the...

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...

I am not pretending that this list and these definitions are rigorously derived from a long study, with definitions honed by voluminous...

"Truly, truly I say to you,  unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies,  it remains alone;  but if it dies, it bears much...

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

Fear of missing out on salvation hovers over this entire passage. Paul's rivals promoted anxiety in order to gain followers for their...

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...

This is the introduction to The Law of the Spirit of Life: A Concise, Practical Commentary on Romans 5-8 . I am writing the book here on...

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...

The purpose of this essay is simply to put out some affirmations without proof or further explanation. Some of them will be controversial...