#concupiscence

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I’ve recently published all my articles on the debate around whether desire and temptation are sin in one e-book. Here’s the introduction to that volume. This little book started life as a series of articles for Faithroot.com in 2024.  At the time a little controversy had begun to brew in conservative evangelical circles.  Technically the debate was about recovering an old theological term and…

Psalm 37:4 tells us to Delight yourself in the Lord and he will grant you the desires of your heart”. Such positive encouragement should caution us to a wholely negative view of desire as automatically and only sin.   We can have good desires.   We may also think of those things as affections, the people, things, priorities we give our affection to, that we love.  The Law says that we are to…

In my previous article in the light of Sam Allberry’s resignation from Immanuel, Nashville and TGC, I referred to the statement that TGC had made. It’s fairly short, so I’ll quote it in full here: “TGC was informed yesterday by Sam Allberry about “an inappropriate relationship with another man a few years ago” and that an announcement would be made today at Immanuel Church regarding his…

Last evening in our weekly meeting with folks who want to be received into the Catholic Church (OCIA), the session was on the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Earlier in the course of meetings we had discussed human nature, original sin, grace, the redemptive nature of the Paschal Mystery and more, all leading up to our meeting topic. As part of the session the topic of concupiscence came…

Keb' Mo' LRBC 2010 "The Itch"

MAKE ME DO THE SAME DAMN THING ALL OVER AGAIN

YOU GONNA GIVE ME THE ITCH FOR CONCUPISCENCE

There’s an interesting little phrase in the Thirty Nine Articles, it appears in article 9 which discusses original sin.  In full, the article says: “Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original…