... God gives us jobs that are too big for us. God gives us tasks that are impossible to do. But we are to be about our Creator's beck and call, knowing that we can be for ourselves, because God is: "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Are you living against yourself? ... times of the 18th century produced a generation of leaders: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, John Adams, James Madison. The hard times of today are also calling forth great leaders. And great communities. Where ...
The discussion of the guilt of humanity in 1:18ff. presupposes the Gentile world, that is, humanity without special revelation from God. The prominence given to homosexuality in 1:26–27 and the list of vices in 1:29–31 typify Jewish prejudice against “Gentile sinners,” as Paul once referred to them (Gal. 2:15). We noted how clearly 1:18–32 echoes the Jewish indictment of Gentiles from the Wisdom of Solomon (chs. 11–15). Gentiles could have known God from creation. “They live among his works,” says Wisdom ...
