Tag Archives: law

It’s all good: identifying the clutter of ‘shoulds’

164 Seven times a day do I praise you, * because of your righteous judgments. The image that came to mind at this verse from this morning’s psalm, (Psalm 119 in praise of the Law), was a scene from a … Continue reading

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Good – no great – is God’s Word

Sirach 31:12 Are you seated at the table of the great?* Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, ‘How much food there is here!’ 13 Remember that a greedy eye is a bad thing. What has been … Continue reading

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CIP, Kaizen and Sanctification

Romans 6: 22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. I’ve come to think of sanctification as the process of continuous improvement. At our baptism our individual lives – … Continue reading

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Lest we forget our Lord, God

Psalm 50 11 I know all the birds of the air,* and all that moves in the field is mine. The first verses of Psalm 50 attest to the all-knowing, sovereign God.  The litany of what God knows, what God … Continue reading

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It is about discipleship, stupid…not salt

Luke 14:34 ‘Salt is good; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?* 35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure heap; they throw it away. Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’ … Continue reading

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1For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

4You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. Justified – made right – by the law and not grace.  Dr. Andrew Farley with whom I am just … Continue reading

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