Sean Carney

Tag: N.T. Wright – Matthew for Everyone Part 2

  • N.T. Wright on Our Participation in Renewal

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    Sean Carney
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    When God rescues your heart from its natural rebellion, and makes it new through your trust in him, your baptism and your following of Jesus, the way this newness works must be through your own decisions, your own thinking things through, your own will power (aided and strengthened at every point, Christians would say, by…

  • N.T. Wright on Forgiveness

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    Forgiveness is more like the air in our lungs. There’s only room for you to inhale the next lungful when you’ve just breathed out the previous one. If you insist on withholding it, refusing to give someone the kiss of life they may desperately need, you won’t be able to take in any more yourself…