Tagged: legalism
4 posts
Wired to Fail
Thirty years in medicine taught me that willpower loses to biology almost every time. That is not an excuse for the thing you keep going back to. It is the reason you cannot fix it, and the reason you have a decision to make.
Carrots, Sticks, and the Heart of Stone
I spent twenty years learning you cannot force a physician to change. Then I read Jeremiah and realized God learned it first. A physician leader's case for why legalism fails and true repentance works.
When the Rules Feel Like a Cage
If you are exhausted from trying to be good, the problem is not the rules and it is not you trying harder. The standard has not moved. What changed is how we become holy. A word for the one grinding under the list.
The Resume That Doesn't Matter
Your religious resume means nothing. Paul proved it. The rules you followed may have kept you clean -- but they can't save you.