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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
5 hours ago3 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
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
God's Solution: Resurrection, Part 1
"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...

Derek Leman
Jan 174 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
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
The 90% and the 10% in Paul
The common reading of Paul—which we are calling justification theory or the justification Gospel—is based on 10% of his writings (this is...

Derek Leman
Oct 29, 20244 min read
Can't Choose Your Belief
Imagine a life in which the Omnipotent Deity will save you if you can successfully high jump a five-foot bar or if you can perfectly sing...

Derek Leman
Oct 21, 20246 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
The Faith of Jesus
It may seem strange to talk about Jesus having faith. Isn't Jesus God the Son? Why would he need faith? This relates to one of the key...

Derek Leman
Sep 27, 20245 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
8 Truths from Paul's Actual Gospel
How did things get so confused? It's the Gospel, right? It's basic, foundational, well-known. Or is it? How did we muddle our image of...

Derek Leman
Sep 16, 20244 min read
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