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Gospel Reasoning is Faith's 'Logic' |
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By Jay Wegter on
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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Every true saint lives with the awareness of his or her ‘dereliction.’ (Dereliction is a fitting word to describe the brokenness, guilt, alienation, and depravity that is the human condition by reason of sin.) Consciousness of personal sin makes the believer’s conscience restless. There is a corresponding sense of justice that calls for so ...
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Faith in Christ’s Love is the ‘Heartbeat’ of our Daily Walk with God |
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By Jay Wegter on
Friday, March 10, 2006
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Faith in Christ’s Love is the ‘Heartbeat’ of our Daily Walk with God. We have fellowship with God when we believe that Christ is perfectly suitable for our desperate situation as ruined transgressors. In the Garden of Gethsemane Christ took a ‘virtual tour’ of the agonies of Calvary when He looked into that cup of wrath; yet He still voluntarily ga ...
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Bring your Heart Aches to your Merciful High Priest |
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By Jay Wegter on
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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No where, is courage needed more than in the area of relational hurt. Hiding, pretending, attacking, and defending, keep short-circuiting any hope of restoration. The healing power of the Gospel provides the heroism necessary to deal with the alienation and ache of offenses committed both by us, and against us. The truth of justification g ...
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The Cross; God’s Plan for Radical Honesty |
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By Jay Wegter on
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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The great reformer Martin Luther had a problem as a priest. He couldn’t understand how a perfectly holy God could accept him when he was so filled with sin and imperfection. At one point Luther protested, “Love God, I feel I hate Him!” When Luther uttered these words, he felt it impossible to be good enough to gain divine acceptance. In His grace, ...
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The atonement; God’s plan to free His people from fear |
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By Jay Wegter on
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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As pastors, it is of utmost importance that we understand how our parishioners live behind the ‘shuttered windows’ of their souls. During my times of visiting believers, I have found that it is the exception, not the rule, to find church members who can honestly say that they are being ‘perfected in love’ (1 Jn 4:18). (To be ‘perfected in love’ is ...
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Delighting in God Equips us to Love |
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By Jay Wegter on
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
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Faithful ministers live the lifestyle of a shepherd; they are constantly caring, nurturing, protecting, instructing, and giving. At times what flows out of them exceeds what flows into them. They can become so emotionally drained that they feel like they are merely ‘going through the motions’ when loving the saints. In times of spiritual and emotio ...
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Failing in the Furnace |
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By Jay Wegter on
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
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In the second epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle’s ‘inspired logic’ is saturated with the paradox of the cross. He views his own weakness through the paradigm of the cross. He boasts and rejoices in his weaknesses; he states that when he is weak he is strong (12:9, 10; 13:9). As to the necessity of his weakness; he proclaims that he is always ...
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