Bible

Psalms and the Lord's Prayer

How do we pray the Psalms as new covenant Christians? What difference does it make that they have been prayed before — now not just by king David but by king Jesus?

Is there any mileage in seeing the Lord's Prayer as a key part of this answer?

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Psalms

Matthew

Goldingay on Psalms

I'm just discovering, and enjoying doing so, Goldingay's commentary on the Psalms.

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Psalms

More on Mark 13

John Richardson offers us some interesting reading on Mark 13. He argues a few points somewhat more carefully than I have before, which I think clarifies things helpfully. Thanks John!

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Mark

Not all equally heinous

God is just. He punishes every sin exactly as it deserves. Not every sin is equally heinous, so not every judgement at the judgement day will be the same. God is just. And that is a wonderful truth.

There are lots of places in Scripture we could go to see this, but I've just found one I hadn't seen before, so I thought I'd share it.

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)

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Theology

Matthew 18:15-20, the sinning brother, in context

See my earlier post weighing the textual options for Matthew 18:15.

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Matthew

Matthew 18 - about church discipline?

Enjoying R T France’s commentary on Matthew yet again.

Reading him on Matthew 18:15-17.

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Matthew

The world will be better than you'd think if you look at it now

I haven’t posted for ages – partly very busy, partly nothing to say.

But I thought I’d post briefly now, because this has encouraged me.

The parable of the weeds and the wheat in Matthew 13:24-30 shows (I think) that the world is a mixed place – it contains true disciples and it contains unbelievers. We need to wait until the end of the age to see truly who is who.

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Matthew