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Tag: New Creation

Cultural Studies…

Ozymandias

26 Feb 2023
By Kim Longden Ozymandias is one of my favorite poems to use as an interpretive reading exercise with the kids. In it, a traveler describes the ruins of a statue…
Exegetical Study…

Walk in Newness of Life

17 Nov 202217 Nov 2022
By Justin Rossow We use Romans 6:5 at funerals all the time, but to paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that verse; I don’t think it means what you think…
Cultural Studies

Your Eternal Life Starts Now

8 Nov 20229 Nov 2022
By Justin Rossow In his famous allegorical narrative, The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis has his most reliable character say: “Both good and evil, when they are fully grown, become…
Exegetical Study

Ashes and Curtains

1 Mar 20222 Nov 2022
By Justin Rossow “Dust you are and to dust you will return.” Those words, spoken to Adam in Genesis 3:19, come right after the Fall. They are words of judgment;…
For My Friends

A Pressed Penny Promise

23 Aug 20212 Nov 2022
By Justin Rossow I was really struck by the Old Testament lesson this week, and glad when the preacher chose to use those strange and wonderful verses as the basis…

There Won’t Always be Candles in the Fireplace

18 Feb 202116 Feb 2021
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah…
Cultural Studies…

A Spiritual Body?

11 Jan 2021
By Conrad Gempf So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised…
Cultural Studies

Far as the Curse is Found

26 Dec 202029 Dec 2020
By Justin Rossow When Isaac Watts published the text for the now-famous hymn Joy to the World in 1719, he was actually paraphrasing Psalm 98:4-9. (Read more.) Watts pushes poetic…
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