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The Law as a pedagogue

Gal 3:22-29 The scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.  So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be […]

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Series on the unfreedoms – Part 3: Excessive influencibility, false pliability and dependence on public opinion

In the last two meditations, we had looked at two different deficiencies of freedom: fear and human respects. In addition, we had talked a little about inferiority complexes. On our path of following Christ, we are called to overcome – with God’s help – all these limitations to our freedom, so that they do not

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True and false zeal

Gal 1:3-24 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had

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Men and women

Gen 2:18-25 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what

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True joy

Lk 10:17-24 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall

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The victory of love

Job 19:21-27 Job said: Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,for the hand of God has touched me!  Why do you, like God, pursue me?    Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? “Oh that my words were written!    Oh that they were inscribed in a book!  Oh that with an

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