I often get very discouraged by the racist views expressed on so many news and social media sites. It seems that some (sad) people are hell-bent in making any and every issue about the amount of pigmentation of another’s skin. Sadly racism is also sometimes seen in the church; this was especially true of the… Continue reading Multi-colour churches and the defeat of racism
Tag: Principalities and powers
You were zombies
In Ephesians 2:1-3 Paul describes the Ephesian believers’ hopeless condition before they had come to experience the power of God in Christ Jesus which had transformed their lives – this of course is true for all believers. According to the Paul they were (spiritually) “dead”, which figuratively describes the state of being lost or under… Continue reading You were zombies
Jesus, Satan, and the Apostle Paul (Jesus and the victory of God in Paul’s thought)
In recent years scholars have taken more seriously the influence of Jesus of Nazareth on the apostle Paul’s thinking. You might think this connection was obvious, but in the world of “biblical” scholarship nothing is obvious. Evangelical scholars contend that the greatest change in Paul’s thinking was brought about as a consequence of Paul’s vision… Continue reading Jesus, Satan, and the Apostle Paul (Jesus and the victory of God in Paul’s thought)