Patrick Kelly 1/17/24 Patrick Kelly 1/17/24 The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “Flame (phlóx) of Fire” Part 2. Preface to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: The love of self, the love of money (philárgyros) and the flame of God’s Holiness Read More Patrick Kelly 1/11/24 Patrick Kelly 1/11/24 The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire”: Part 1. Beginning at the End: The Revelation of Jesus Christ and the “flame” of His holiness bringing judgment or transforming glory Read More Patrick Kelly 12/5/23 Patrick Kelly 12/5/23 Ps 63:1b My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You. Part II: Psalms-Prophets: Our thirst eternally unmet in the vanities of This Age or finally satisfied in the Kingdom of the Suffering Servant Read More Patrick Kelly 11/28/23 Patrick Kelly 11/28/23 Ps 63:1b My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You; My flesh longs (kâmah) for You; In a dry and weary land Where there is no water. Part 1: The paradox of thirst and the Brave New World of controlled impulse Read More Patrick Kelly 10/21/23 Patrick Kelly 10/21/23 Ps 63:1a O God (ĕlôhîym) you are my God (êl); Early will I seek (shakhar) You Read More Patrick Kelly 10/15/23 Patrick Kelly 10/15/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part III. From carnal lust to spiritual idolatry and pharmakeía to divisions (heresies) and, finally, total spiritual corruption Read More Patrick Kelly 10/8/23 Patrick Kelly 10/8/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”…to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part II. The operations of the Spirit in us that we “not fulfill the deep desires of the flesh” (Gal 5, I John 3 and Jam 2) Read More Patrick Kelly 10/5/23 Patrick Kelly 10/5/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part I. From the Law’s “yoke of bondage” to the freedom of life in the Spirit born out of our co-crucifixion with the Lover of our souls Read More Patrick Kelly 10/3/23 Patrick Kelly 10/3/23 Psalm 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah” (Miḏbār [מִדְבָּר]): From the Wilderness of Paganism to “Affliction” (anah [עָנָה]) to a Pit to Covenantal life in the Passover Read More Patrick Kelly 9/30/23 Patrick Kelly 9/30/23 Ps 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah”: Part 1. Intro to T. F. Torrance’s “kataphysic inquiry” and the “epistemological inversion” required in any study of the Living Word Read More Patrick Kelly 9/26/23 Patrick Kelly 9/26/23 Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves: Part II. Akéraios: The “unmixed” purity of the Holy Spirit overcoming the world and its passions of the flesh Read More Patrick Kelly 9/22/23 Patrick Kelly 9/22/23 Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves: Part I. Phrónimos: Operating with a purified mind/heart/soul/ spirit/nous such that we live “according to Christ” and “by the Spirit” Read More Patrick Kelly 9/19/23 Patrick Kelly 9/19/23 Dípsychos (δίψυχος): The unstable state of double-mindedness that arises when there are in us two (di) spirits (psyches) vying in a never-ending battle for control Read More Patrick Kelly 9/17/23 Patrick Kelly 9/17/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: Part III. The “change” effected not by fallen man but by God in Christ (as we pass from suppression to confrontation and victorious union) Read More Patrick Kelly 9/14/23 Patrick Kelly 9/14/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation. Part II: The “change” effected in the fallen mind: Hell itself internalized making us, in the end, “foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless” Read More Patrick Kelly 9/12/23 Patrick Kelly 9/12/23 Arbêh (אַרְבֶּה): The Dual Nature of the Plagues: The all-consuming plague of locusts upon Egypt transformed through the rejection of God’s Holiness into the Covenantal Curses upon the people of God Read More Patrick Kelly 8/29/23 Patrick Kelly 8/29/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: Apo-Dia-Kata-Apokata-allássō. Part 1: The external “change” engineered by fallen man failing in its ultimate ends while working to effect glorious transformation Read More Patrick Kelly 12/22/22 Patrick Kelly 12/22/22 Baw-dal (בָּדַל): The Division of the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit, True Justice from Vengeance and Eternal Blessing from the Self Delusions of False Shalom: Part II. The Pentateuch: Num-Deut Read More Patrick Kelly 12/17/22 Patrick Kelly 12/17/22 Baw-dal (בָּדַל): The Division of Light from Darkness, Heaven from Earth, God’s Covenant People from the Nations and the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit: Part I. The Pentateuch: Gen-Lev Read More Patrick Kelly 11/12/22 Patrick Kelly 11/12/22 Eccl 7:7: Raving Madness or Shining Light? T.F. Torrance and the approach to our word studies revisited Read More Older Posts
Patrick Kelly 1/17/24 Patrick Kelly 1/17/24 The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “Flame (phlóx) of Fire” Part 2. Preface to the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus: The love of self, the love of money (philárgyros) and the flame of God’s Holiness Read More
Patrick Kelly 1/11/24 Patrick Kelly 1/11/24 The Eyes of the Risen Christ as a “flame (phlóx) of fire”: Part 1. Beginning at the End: The Revelation of Jesus Christ and the “flame” of His holiness bringing judgment or transforming glory Read More
Patrick Kelly 12/5/23 Patrick Kelly 12/5/23 Ps 63:1b My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You. Part II: Psalms-Prophets: Our thirst eternally unmet in the vanities of This Age or finally satisfied in the Kingdom of the Suffering Servant Read More
Patrick Kelly 11/28/23 Patrick Kelly 11/28/23 Ps 63:1b My soul thirsts (tsâmê) for You; My flesh longs (kâmah) for You; In a dry and weary land Where there is no water. Part 1: The paradox of thirst and the Brave New World of controlled impulse Read More
Patrick Kelly 10/21/23 Patrick Kelly 10/21/23 Ps 63:1a O God (ĕlôhîym) you are my God (êl); Early will I seek (shakhar) You Read More
Patrick Kelly 10/15/23 Patrick Kelly 10/15/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part III. From carnal lust to spiritual idolatry and pharmakeía to divisions (heresies) and, finally, total spiritual corruption Read More
Patrick Kelly 10/8/23 Patrick Kelly 10/8/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”…to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part II. The operations of the Spirit in us that we “not fulfill the deep desires of the flesh” (Gal 5, I John 3 and Jam 2) Read More
Patrick Kelly 10/5/23 Patrick Kelly 10/5/23 From the “Fruits of the Spirit”… to the “Works of the Flesh”: Part I. From the Law’s “yoke of bondage” to the freedom of life in the Spirit born out of our co-crucifixion with the Lover of our souls Read More
Patrick Kelly 10/3/23 Patrick Kelly 10/3/23 Psalm 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah” (Miḏbār [מִדְבָּר]): From the Wilderness of Paganism to “Affliction” (anah [עָנָה]) to a Pit to Covenantal life in the Passover Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/30/23 Patrick Kelly 9/30/23 Ps 63, “A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah”: Part 1. Intro to T. F. Torrance’s “kataphysic inquiry” and the “epistemological inversion” required in any study of the Living Word Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/26/23 Patrick Kelly 9/26/23 Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves: Part II. Akéraios: The “unmixed” purity of the Holy Spirit overcoming the world and its passions of the flesh Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/22/23 Patrick Kelly 9/22/23 Be wise (phrónimos) as serpents and pure (akéraios) as doves: Part I. Phrónimos: Operating with a purified mind/heart/soul/ spirit/nous such that we live “according to Christ” and “by the Spirit” Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/19/23 Patrick Kelly 9/19/23 Dípsychos (δίψυχος): The unstable state of double-mindedness that arises when there are in us two (di) spirits (psyches) vying in a never-ending battle for control Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/17/23 Patrick Kelly 9/17/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: Part III. The “change” effected not by fallen man but by God in Christ (as we pass from suppression to confrontation and victorious union) Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/14/23 Patrick Kelly 9/14/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation. Part II: The “change” effected in the fallen mind: Hell itself internalized making us, in the end, “foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless” Read More
Patrick Kelly 9/12/23 Patrick Kelly 9/12/23 Arbêh (אַרְבֶּה): The Dual Nature of the Plagues: The all-consuming plague of locusts upon Egypt transformed through the rejection of God’s Holiness into the Covenantal Curses upon the people of God Read More
Patrick Kelly 8/29/23 Patrick Kelly 8/29/23 The Fivefold Path of Reconciliation: Apo-Dia-Kata-Apokata-allássō. Part 1: The external “change” engineered by fallen man failing in its ultimate ends while working to effect glorious transformation Read More
Patrick Kelly 12/22/22 Patrick Kelly 12/22/22 Baw-dal (בָּדַל): The Division of the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit, True Justice from Vengeance and Eternal Blessing from the Self Delusions of False Shalom: Part II. The Pentateuch: Num-Deut Read More
Patrick Kelly 12/17/22 Patrick Kelly 12/17/22 Baw-dal (בָּדַל): The Division of Light from Darkness, Heaven from Earth, God’s Covenant People from the Nations and the True Priesthood from the Counterfeit: Part I. The Pentateuch: Gen-Lev Read More
Patrick Kelly 11/12/22 Patrick Kelly 11/12/22 Eccl 7:7: Raving Madness or Shining Light? T.F. Torrance and the approach to our word studies revisited Read More