I Will Change Your Name

Forgiving God: A Testimony

What Do Divorced People Feel?

Salvation: Quadrant 4
What is salvation? In my first post in this series I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the fourth quadrant (4).    Past Justification Present Sanctification Future Glorification

Salvation: Quadrant 3
What is salvation? In my first post in this series I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the third quadrant (2).    Past Justification Present Sanctification Future Glorification

Salvation: Quadrant 2
What is salvation? In my first post in this series I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the second quadrant (2).  I debated with myself (which is an interesting thing to observe ) whether to proceed numerically 1, 2, 3…. or to proceed temporally (talk about all the past dimensions, then the present, then the future). I finally decided on the numerical method because in this series I ultimate

Salvation: Quadrant 1
What is salvation? In my last post I proposed the below chart as a way of answering that important question. In this post I will comment on the first quadrant (1).   Past Justification Present Sanctification Future Glorification

A “Comprehensive” Perspective on Salvation
What is salvation? Seems like a simple question. Maybe, but maybe not.  There are certainly uncomplicated aspects to answering the question, but a “comprehensive” picture is an integrated one that explores the question from various angles. The question may seem simple because it has often been answered simplistically. Or, perhaps better, it has often been answered with a focus on one dimension or aspect of salvation. And, in addition, it is often answered without a salvation history or redemptive history perspective, that is, the cosmic and communal dimensions of salvation have often been ignored or neglected in defining “salvation.”