Remember how Paul fell off his horse on the Damascus road when he encountered Jesus? Only one thing. Neither Acts nor Paul said anything about a horse. Yet this pervasive perception is imprinted in our imagination of this scene. If we see through rose-colored glasses, the world looks rosy, right? Looking at the glass halfContinue reading “More Precious Than Gold Pt. 2: Perception Matters”
Category Archives: General Epistles
More Precious Than Gold Pt. 1: Teaser Intro to Peter’s Epistles
I’ll never forget my first whitewater rafting trip. Standing at attention in my blue life-jacket and yellow “brain bucket,” our young adult river guide warned of everything that could go wrong. Most ominous was the “High side right!”—an emergency scramble onto the raft’s right side (outside the raft) to avoid rapids swallowing us up. AsContinue reading “More Precious Than Gold Pt. 1: Teaser Intro to Peter’s Epistles”
Jesus is Our Better Hope
In its most exalted glorified sense, Scripture presents hope not as an “it” or a thing. Hope is a Person. Hope has a name: Jesus. In fact, the writer of Hebrews points to Jesus as the Better Hope. So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable (for the law perfected nothing),Continue reading “Jesus is Our Better Hope”
Glory Unveiled: Discovering Jesus 