Like Jacob the Patriarch, real men wrestle with God. They don’t pick fights with someone half their size.

Genesis 32:22-32 Right Response Staff
Like Jacob the Patriarch, real men wrestle with God. They don’t pick fights with someone half their size.
God sent revival to Nineveh, yet the Prophet Jonah was bitter. Similarly, if God chose to start saving a bunch of hillbillies in flyover country, Russell Moore and David French would probably be among the first to complain.
In the second half of verse 2 of our text, John says that Jesus is the propitiation, “not for our [sins] only, but also for those of the whole world.” This little phrase has sparked a lot of theological controversy. Those who oppose the Reformed (Calvinist) view of salvation say that this verse refutes the doctrine of “limited atonement” – …
The Church has never had a monopoly on self-righteousness. A person can be religious and self-righteous, and a person can be completely pagan and self-righteous. In today’s culture, we have far more of the latter.
This week Benjamin R. Merkle, the President of New Saint Andrews College, teaches on Genesis 2:4-7. His focus was on God’s creation and how it relates to the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The word gospel literally means good news. The good news of the gospel is that God himself has come to rescue and renew all of creation in and through the work of Jesus Christ, for the good of his people and to the praise of his glorious grace. So why does all creation, including you and I, need rescuing? The …