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God is just. He punishes every sin exactly as it deserves. Not every sin is equally heinous, so not every judgement at the judgement day will be the same. God is just. And that is a wonderful truth.

There are lots of places in Scripture we could go to see this, but I've just found one I hadn't seen before, so I thought I'd share it.

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)

I love discovering new hymns.

Like this one by Josiah Conder, entitled My Lord, I did not choose you.

“What’s new about the new covenant?”

A really good question that a friend of mine kept asking, from lots of angles, of lots of people, while we were at college together.

David Field’s post entitled Covenantal category confusion, disconnect, denial, and abstraction is a very helpful contribution.

Peter Leithart is characteristically rich in his Pentecost Homily from yesterday.

I most enjoyed Jam’s discussion with himself on the issues surrounding work on a Sunday.

Many of us, instinctively, think that refusing to work on a Sunday is a bad thing. Ideally we wouldn’t do it very often, but we mustn’t make a rule out of it. Surely, in this day and age when grace rules, Sabbath observance has had its day?

Not quite so simple. It’s all about how we use our freedom.

Anyway: Enjoy reading New Jam in dialogue with Old Jam

Having finished reading Reformed is not Enough, I’ve done some reading of those who interact with the material.

There are some great quotations in the epilogue of Reformed is not Enough.

How I love having “good news stories” to report.

“Your kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven”

Quite so. The question is, when will this happen?

What I’ve recently come to realise is that there are two mistakes to make here.