Soteriology
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False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Recovering Regal Soteriology
To lure sinners with the delights of eternal life while obscuring the demands of Christ’s Lordship over them is a supreme evangelistic cruelty. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Apostasy and Assurance
“If we’re united to Jesus Christ, we will persevere and cannot apostatize, and we can have rock-solid assurance that we cannot.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Our Promissory God
Several decades ago a Canadian schoolteacher Everett Storms read the Bible through 27 times specifically counting God’s promises. The number he came up with is 7,487. We might dis‐ pute that number, but of this there must be no doubt: you can find thousands of God’s promises in the Bible. If you read nothing but Continue reading
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Pessimism Is Not a Strategy
“Hope is not a strategy” — this is an increasingly popular adage. It means that we can be hopeful all we want, but unless we have a plan and strategy in place to accomplish what we’re hoping for, that hope will likely be dashed. This adage is a gleaming example of commonsensical, contra-biblical, worldly wisdom. Continue reading
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Our Lord’s Crucifixion as Exaltation
It seemed that Jesus was one lowered and humiliated at the crucifixion. What the watching world — and Satan himself — did not yet know is that it was Satan and his entire usurping empire that was dispossessed and humiliated at the Cross. The Cross inaugurated the new (and final) world order. Continue reading
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Transformation by Resurrection
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him Continue reading
P. Andrew Sandlin 