In his seventh woe to the Pharisees, Jesus promised to send prophets and teachers and sages. The prophets would reveal the secrets of God, the mysteries we’ve been discussing for the last several weeks.  We’re considering several mysteries—the secrets of God spoken about in the New Testament: The mystery of godliness, or the source of…

We’ve been talking about the mysteries of godliness and the iniquity of good and evil. For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the subject of grace. Michael mentioned last week that he was raised a Catholic but the Catholics never talked very much about grace. I think we could all say the same,…

We’ve been talking about the mysteries of God, about good and evil, about the mystery of godliness and the mystery of iniquity. And in that context, we’ve been looking at grace, a subject of great importance to the Christian yet something we find vaguely unsettling. It elicits strong emotions—joy, for one; but also anger and…

We have noted that, at different times and in different places, what we believe to be right or wrong may be different, and that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the root of both good and evil. Any fruit from such a tree is deadly, God says, and should be avoided.…

What does it mean to live a life of grace? We’ve been studying the mysteries of godliness and iniquity, the mysteries of good and evil, the truth revealed about grace and the law. The question was raised by Michael last week: How do you live a life of grace?  We have seen that in the…

We are studying the secrets of God—the so-called mysteries in the New Testament, which we’ve come to understand are not whodunits but new truths—truth revealed, truth not previously understood or even known. We’ve been talking most recently about good and evil: The mystery of godliness and the mystery of iniquity, two of the four great…