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Don’t hit your sister! Sometimes it takes all the willpower we have as children to obey. As adults we may have an approach-avoidance response to God’s will for our lives. We may intentionally seek spiritual growth and fulfillment, yet withdraw or pull back when God’s call conflicts with “our

One of the great arts of Christian theology is to know how to tell the story: the story of the Old Testament, the story of Jesus as both the climax of the Old Testament and the foundation of all that was to come (not a random collection of useful preaching material with some extraordinary and

Luke has already introduced several themes which will be important as his book progresses. Next he emphasizes the way in which the early church was living as the true people of God—not least, we may suspect, in order to highlight an emerging paradox. The temple authorities thought they were the

Again and again, in worship and sacrament, in reading the Scriptures, in Christian fellowship and prayer, we taste in advance just a little bit of the coming together of heaven and earth, the sense that this is what we were made for, the new world which we shall finally enjoy. It is there,

The opening paragraph of the book of Acts declares, clearly and solidly, that it is a sequel. There has been a previous book, and this one continues the story. It even suggests a kind of title: “The Deeds and Teachings of King Jesus, Part Two”. At first sight this is a strange title, since