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Category: Gospel metaphors
The Family Gospel (Reconciliation)
This is the final of a series of messages simply titled ‘The Gospel’. We have looked at the various pictures the Bible gives us, by which we can understand more fully the death of Jesus Christ for us. We need to do this because nothing matters more than the Gospel. Yet the Scriptures themselves do…
The Polluted Heart Gospel (Renewal)
Sin pollutes. It makes the heart dirty. It stains, not the kind of stain that ‘Shout’ or ‘Mr. Clean’ can remove. It is a bottle of black ink poured over white satin, the kind of stain about which we would say: ‘That will never come out.’ Genesis is where the story of sin begins. Adam…
The Life/Death Metaphor (Regeneration)
When we try to articulate the Gospel in a nutshell, and in such a way as to give real understanding, we find we can’t do it. Words are woefully inadequate to say: ‘This what the Gospel is…’ in a few sentences. The Bible does not even attempt it because it cannot. But a picture is…
The courtroom gospel (Justification)
Today we are beginning a short series of blogs concerning the Biblical pictures of the Gospel. We want to re-focus on the Gospel, to reacquaint ourselves with it, to be gripped by it, and to re-calibrate our lives to it again. Sometimes the ‘foyer’ of our faith needs renovating, but once in a while we…