Category: sola fide
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Faith as Trust, Not Pledge part 3: Faith works better
This third installment draws upon historic, systematic, and practical theology to demonstrate that “faith” is not only a fine translation of pistis; it’s actually much more useful translation than “allegiance” or “faithfulness.”
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Faith as Trust, Not Pledge pt. 2: Have we clarified the gospel yet?
The second post in this series takes a critical look at the consequences of redefining faith as faithfulness or allegiance for gospel clarity.
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Faith as Trust — not Pledge, part 1: Faith is obsolete now?
Part one of a three-part series on the trend towards redefining “faith” in Scripture as “faithfulness” or “allegiance.” In this post, I begin by laying out my concerns, and showing why these simply aren’t great glosses for pistis-words.
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Who’s afraid of Sola Fide?
The one where I explain that the grace to do good works can only be received through faith, while quoting Martin Luther, St. Augustine, and Kris Kristofferson.
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Kitchen Nightmares: Church Edition (a sermon on James 2:18-19)
A sermon on James 2:18-19, given February 26, 2023. This message is meant to (a) provoke Christians to good works that proceed from faith; and (b) to drive us to Christ for comfort and assurance when we find our works are lacking.
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Saved by grace, through faith, for works (Ephesians 2:8-10)
To rightly understand the Gospel, you have to keep your prepositions in order. A sermon on Ephesians 2:8-10.
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Does James 2 deny faith alone?
The one where I get really nerdy detangling the wires we’ve crossed in Paul’s and James’ teachings on justification and faith.
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