We are no strangers to the category of “law,” but how is God’s law different from man-made laws and rituals? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss the importance of the law-gospel distinction and dig into the definition of the law and its impact on God’s people today.
God’s Two Words: What Is the Law?
Series: God's Two Words: Law and Gospel


God’s Two Words: What Is the Law?
44 min
Series: God's Two Words: Law and Gospel

God’s Two Words: What Is the Law?
44 min

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Series • 4 Episodes
God's Two Words: Law and Gospel
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God’s Two Words: What Is the Gospel?
Is the gospel something that we do? Is it something—like a law—that we can execute or abide by? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland unpack the covenant of grace throughout Scripture, considering the counterintuitive nature of God’s unilateral kindness to us in the gospel.

God’s Two Words: Why the Order Matters
Proponents of the law-gospel distinction have often emphasized the need for them to appear in the right order. But how important is that order? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss what’s at stake if the law and gospel are out of order or […]

How to Do Law and Gospel Wrong
Throughout this series, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland have talked a lot about the need to distinguish law from gospel, but what happens when there’s not only a distinction but a division between the two? In this episode of White Horse Inn, the roundtable considers various distortions of the law-gospel […]
Law and Gospel
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The Letter Kills, the Spirit Gives Life
“He must kill us if he’s going to raise us to a new life. He must drive us to despair of ourselves if we’re ever going to cling to him alone.”

Don’t Rebuild What Christ Fulfilled: The Case Against “Bible Diets”
With the growing popularity of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement alongside a growing distrust of standard Western fare and medical advice, many Christians are rethinking their approach to food. For a Western church long known for pre-service donuts and cookies, the shift toward […]

Why Do Christians Only Observe Some of the Old Testament Laws?
Trypho’s question and the modern objection both boil down to the same issue: Are Christians inconsistent in how they apply Old Testament law?

What Is the Gospel, Really? Responding to John Mark Comer and Scot McKnight
John Mark Comer and New Testament scholar Scot McKnight take issue with how the gospel is often articulated in evangelical circles. Michael Horton responds to these concerns and critiques and gives his own assessment of what they call the “King Jesus Gospel.”




