Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Salvation

  • THINKING SALVATION: Salvation in the Real World

    SAVED FROM WHAT? I’ve been thinking lately about salvation. “Salvation” is an odd sort of word. We rarely use it outside the church. Certainly, in a setting like this—a blog entitled The Peripatetic Pastor—you would expect any discussion of salvation to be biblical and theological, something perhaps in answer to the question: What must I do…

  • THEOSIS: AN ADVENT MEDITATION

    Since all God’s divine power has been given to us, the power of life and godly living, through knowing the one who called us by [or “to”] his own glory and virtue [and] through which we have been given weighty and majestic promises that through these you may become participants in the nature of divinity,…

  • THE GOD WHO PUSHES AND THE GOD WHO PULLS: What the Bible Says about Saving the Human Race, Part 1

    THE HUMAN PLIGHT Before one can be clear about a solution, one must be clear about the problem.  Or, to put this in theological terms, one’s view of salvation must be closely tied to one’s view of what’s gone wrong. For the past few posts, I’ve been looking at what the Bible has to say about…