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Tag Archives: new covenant
Ministry, Regardless
The Old Testament stories of biblical heroes are full of fallible people with questionable behavior. With the exception of maybe one or two like Joseph, men and women of faith in … Continue reading
Whose Ministry
Before we begin to look more deeply into this New Covenant passage in 2 Corinthians, we need to get one very important thing clear. It isn’t actually stated until further on into the passage although it is implied all along. … Continue reading
The Return of the New Covenant
This week we will take a trip through a passage in 2 Corinthians that we have long held is the least known, most necessary passage in all of scripture for living the daily Christian life. And if it is the … Continue reading
Sometimes messy; always real
Last weekend I delivered the Sunday morning message at Calvary Chapel, San Clemente, California. My wife raved about it and suggested that I should turn it into a Catch. That presented a bit of a problem, however, in that the … Continue reading
Messy Christianity
If your version of the Christian life has you pleased with your performance and fulfilling most of your spiritual expectations, there may be a chance that you are following the wrong one. That’s right. Beware of systems or even patterns … Continue reading
Playing from victory
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “You play from victory, not for victory.” Cooper Kupp, Super Bowl LVI MVP I had to think about it for a while to make sure I heard him correctly. Yes, … Continue reading
The new people of God
It doesn’t make any difference now whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people. May God’s mercy and peace be on all those who live by this … Continue reading
Carrying around the death of Jesus
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 2 Corinthians 4:10 I always thought this sounded kind of gruesome: carrying around the death of Jesus. … Continue reading
What we have inside
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 Who would have thought these verses would have given me so much trouble? Well … Continue reading
No Hall of Fame
We are sore pressed at every point, but not hemmed in; we are at our wit’s end, but never at our hope’s end; we are persecuted by men, but never abandoned by God; we are knocked down, but not knocked … Continue reading
