Tag Archives: Love
A People of Love
One of the first people I shared our theological vision with is not a member of First. In fact, he’s not even a Christian. One night we were hanging out, talking about work, and he asked me what I’d been … Continue reading
Posted in A Refuge for the World
Tagged Community, First Baptist NYC, Love, The Law and the Gospel, Theological Vision
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Piety and Justice
This section of Isaiah has already led us to consider God’s blessing of peace—shalom, well-being, everything as it ought to be. And yet it opens with a command to “maintain justice” (56.1). How do those two ideas relate—the promise of … Continue reading
Posted in Isaiah
Tagged Fasting, Gospel, Homelessness, Hunger, Hypocrisy, Justice, Love, Mercy, Pharisees, Piety, Prayer, Self-righteousness, Social justice
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Your God Reigns!
Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, a battle took place in a Greek port town that we still remember to this day, if not for the battle itself, at least for the location. For this was the Battle … Continue reading
Posted in Isaiah
Tagged Deliverance, Divine presence, Ethics, Evangelism, Faith and Work, Gospel, Hope, Joy, Love
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