ROMANS

Justification and Loving

A way of seeing people.  Features a review of the film STRANGER THAN FICTION.

 A Tour of the ‘Acts of the Apostles' 

This will put you close up to the historic realities of those times.  It is best to know the events of Acts before Roman's own themes, since its themes took place in events.

The Main Event

How one phrase poorly rendered can disable us from a clear grasp of the objective meaning of Romans.

Justification by Transferred Righteousness

What did Catholicism miss when its answer to Protestants was that grace saves us by its work infused our lives?  What other major world religion cares about this, and why?

"Justification By Faith-Independence Day" by G. Paxton 

Paxton puts the Gospel and civic sense oh, so close together.  The West has the Gospel to thank for its freedoms, and it had better, before they are gone.

Justification By Faith and Eschatology by R. Brinsmead (the author's own emphasized excerpts)

There really is a completely different way of "doing" eschatology with completely different results.  Paul is to ‘blame' for making justification the definitive working part.

The Passion of the Wrap-Up of Romans

Things get pretty heated-up here, as the objective meaning of Paul is unmistakable.  How could it be mistaken when it was his career?

Peace Work

Calling on workers for the Gospel to use the European tool now before the region becomes Eurabia.

The Free Woman and The Slave Woman of Galatians 4, and Islam

Was Paul prescient to the rise of something even larger and more forceful than what he had left and had opposed?

OBJECTIVE MEANING

"Faith v. ‘Faith'"

We must know if we are working with this kind of material or not.  Romans says so, and there are deep instincts which Romans validates.

THE PC AGE AND GOD'S MISSION

The Most Unfortunately Popularized Verse

It wouldn't be so bad that evangelical capitalists have bilked a billion dollars popularizing this verse for narcissists...if it weren't for the fact that that buries how it is at the very center of Romans lofty declarations about the historic changes to history in the Gospel event.  Interplans name comes from the fact that Jer.29:11 is not about narcissism, but about us making plans within the one God already structured. 

"Doing the Lord's Work in the Lord's Way" (key excerpts) by F. Schaeffer, 1971

Are we in God's mission?  Are we at work in it in the Lord's way?  These principles are rooted in the reverent appreciation that God must be at work through his own message (Acts 1), or effort is wasted.

Christianized Islam and Cowardice

Can it be shown that Islam is being treated as an ordinary religion just as it can be shown that Christianity has absorbed some of it?

Animism Anyone?

If our education and media complexes would look clearly at the other cultures, there might not be any politically correct worship of them.

Antichrist Logic

What is the spirit and why does it matter?

Other Reasons for Ignoring Modern Events in the Middle East

The modern situation is hardly proof of the Bible, but perhaps that wasn't the intent.  In any case, the modern scene is not even needed to find the great center of Biblical prophecy.

Letters

While he still combs the current scene for signs of fulfillment, at least recently one major prophecy expert has said that mission work takes precedence.

What Should Our Eschatology Do?

Are we aware of what our eschatology does to us, to others?  Hopefully we will be close to the guiding trajectory of Acts. 

LITTLE COUNTRY BACKGROUND

Revisiting Chisinau

This essay provides much of the background for this story.