Tag: Grace
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Victory Over Slavery
Sometime ago, I felt impressed to preach a sermon out of the book of Philemon. This sermon developed out of that study. Go to Philemon: Exploration into Forgiveness and Reconciliation for more details on that study. Yet within this sermon there is no reference made to Philemon at all. Studying Philemon gave the input for this sermon for I suddenly…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict part 4c
A Note on Justification For us to fully understand Paul’s teaching in verses 16-20 of Galatians chapter 2 we need a better grip on his view of justification. Way to often it is described in terms of a court of law that condemns people or declares them guilty but then justifies or declares them not…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict part 4b
Unpacking Paul’s Logic Galatians 2:14-21 First, let’s begin by looking at verse 14 which begins Paul’s message to Peter; “But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, ‘If you being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as…
Pastor Lester Bentley 