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Our BTS colleague, Joel Willitts, and his wife Karla had twins today. Zion, the little boy, weighed in at 3.4 pounds and his sister, born one minute later, Mary, weighed in at 2.4 pounds. Both the little ones are doing very well with good signs of health. Mary, Joel says, is not too happy about…

In Paul’s letter to the Galatians the apostle builds an argument that former barriers to the blessing have been knocked down — everyone comes into the family of God by faith. And then Paul gives what my colleague, Klyne Snodgrass, calls the “most socially explosive statement in the NT” — and he says folks have…

Now the young man speaks back:

At times on this blog I have observed that I believe far too many Christians anchor too much of their hope in a political party and in the next election — whether local or national. My own conviction is that Christians need to anchor their hope in God and in the manifestation of the gospel…

In the second row of my Jesus class sit four students who are baristas, and they are convinced that my freezing of coffee ruins the coffee. So they insist on a sealed container for my coffee. Now, let’s hear an explanation for all of us: What is the best way to store your coffee?

The young man has just extolled the beauty of his lover, comparing or imagining her ornamentation to that of Pharaoh’s royalty. It is now her turn to answer back:

O God, who for our redemption didst give thine only-begotten Son to the death of the cross, and by his glorious resurrection hast delivered us from the power of our enemy: Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection; through Jesus Christ…

1 Corinthians 15 connects resurrection and redemption more profoundly than anywhere else in the Bible. He became what we are so we could become what he is; our union with Christ ushers us into the resurrection. Here’s a scriptural reading for Eastern morning:

For Tyrese, an 8-year old suffering with a serious fever, for his healing. Lord, hear our prayers.

Kris and I will be at St. Matthew’s Church Episcopal in Sterling, Va., next weekend. On April 19, 20, I’ll begin teaching a new course (Galatians) at Biblical Theological Seminary, and then on April 21 John Franke and I are working together for a morning conference on emerging culture and the gospel. (I see Biblical…
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