Jews, Gentiles, and Works of the Law, Romans 2:25-29, Romans 3:1-8 – Deep in...
Email: Dear Marcus and Ken, recently you discussed Romans 2:3 “Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?” Jesus...
View ArticleContinuing Romans 4:1-12 – Deep in Scripture Radio
EMAIL: Dear Marcus and Ken, I regularly post comments on a discussion site which has a lot of Bible only Christians. … One of the things I notice with this group is they go to the OT a LOT and the...
View ArticleServile vs Filial Fear and the Continued Study of Romans 4:13-25 – Deep in...
Dear Ken and Marcus, Last week, you discussed Romans 4:4: “Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.” Recently someone pointed out Phil 2:12, “work out your own...
View ArticleListener Question on Faith and Works, James 2
Listener Email: Dear Marcus and Ken: I really appreciate the way you have been discussing St. Paul’s doctrine of justification in Romans on Deep in Scripture. The question that keeps coming up in my...
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The Law of Liberty — Romans 5:1-11 and James 2:12 – Deep in Scripture Radio
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View ArticleWe Are Debtors — Romans 8:12-23
In this episode of Deep in Scripture radio, Marcus Grodi and Kenneth Howell discuss what it means to be “debtors” to the world and to Christ. Are we sheep or are we sons and daughters of God? What does...
View ArticleSt. Paul, Why Haven’t Jews Responded to the Gospel of Christ? Romans 9:30-10:13
Continuing our study of Romans, we’re right in the middle of the section in which Saint Paul addresses the question: “Why haven’t all the Jews responded to the Gospel of Christ?” They were the chosen...
View Article“Hard Verses”— Answering YOUR Bible Questions!
Violence, rape, and polygamy in the Old Testament?! How are we saved by faith and works?! How does one interpret these verses? How did the Early Church answer these difficult questions? CHN sent out a...
View Article“Hard Verses”: The Hard Teachings of Jesus — Deep in Scripture Radio
Renouncing all our possessions? Hating our mother and father? These sayings are hard! What does Jesus want from us who are called His disciples? Marcus Grodi and Jim Anderson look at these verses...
View Article“We love because he first loved us.”– 1 John 4:19, Steve Wood’s Hard Verses
Steve discusses how in a variety of Christian circles, both Protestant and Catholic, it is difficult to really grapple with what it means for God to have “first loved us.” For this reason so much of...
View ArticleA Calvinist Biker’s Road Trip to the Mother Church
On May 15, 2016, two days before I turned 58, I was received into the Roman Catholic Church in the parish of the Holy Trinity in Naarden, the Netherlands. On that Pentecost Sunday, I was confirmed...
View ArticleYikes! Were Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus all Legalists?
In 1980, I was a young seminary student for whom nothing was more exciting than thinking about the truths of the Christian faith. While I was a firm believer in the Reformation doctrine of...
View ArticleInsights – Grace and the Spiritual Disciplines
While studying as a Presbyterian seminarian, Nathan Wigfield began to ponder more deeply the relationship between grace and free will, between faith in God and obedience to Him. He found this harmony...
View ArticleLuther: The Rest of the Story, Part IV: Not by “Faith Alone”
This article is part of an ongoing series from Ken Hensley. Part I Part II Part III In 1980, I was a young seminary student for whom nothing was more exciting than thinking about the truths of the...
View ArticleTyler Blanski – Former Anglican
Tyler Blanski had a deep love of Scripture as far back as he can remember, but also had a strong aversion to any hint of what he saw to be “man-made” religion. At the same time, he loved poetry, art,...
View ArticleI Timothy 3:15, Ephesians 2:8-9, and the Catholic “Both/And”– Marcus Grodi...
Marcus Grodi continues his “Memorable Verses” series of Deep in Scripture by welcoming Matt D’Antuono, whose work appears regularly at the National Catholic Register. On this episode, they look at I...
View ArticleA Damning System of Works Righteousness Part I: Are Catholics Even Christian?
This is the first part of an ongoing article series from Ken Hensley. “No doctrine is more important to evangelical theology than the doctrine of justification by faith alone — the Reformation...
View ArticleA Damning System of Works Righteousness Part II: Faith and Obedience in the...
This is part of an ongoing article series from Ken Hensley. Read Part I. Virtually every presentation of the Reformation doctrine of sola fide (faith alone) contains within it the following line of...
View ArticleA Damning System of Works Righteousness Part III: Faith and Obedience in the...
This is part of an ongoing article series from Ken Hensley. Part I Part II Imagine you received a letter from a college you applied to informing you that from the moment you first expressed sincere...
View ArticleA Damning System of Works Righteousness Part IV: Imputation: The Heart of the...
This is part of an ongoing article series from Ken Hensley. Part I Part II Part III I had been wrestling for some years with the suspicion that there was something not right about the doctrine of...
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