“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). In a paragraph that speaks of God’s explicit love for His creation, these words stand out to me today. While the context is that fear, guilt, and shame are banished by perfect love – the kind of love God has… Read More »
Can We Be Blameless?
1 Thess. 2:10, “You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.” Although I have read this verse many times in my life, the last time I read it, the word “blameless” stood out to me. In the past, a friend of mine was approached by… Read More »
Please Police Your Child’s Social Media Posts
Pro. 22:15, “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.” The psalmist expresses two important things: the natural sin of a child and the importance of correcting that tendency. Discipline was thrown out with the garbage in the 60’s when Dr. Spock, a… Read More »
Confusing Words in the Bible
Several words in the Bible are not that easy to understand, like the following, atonement, propitiation, redemption, justified, righteous, and sanctified. On more than one occasion, an individual has asked me to explain them. I trust this will help you if you struggle with them as well. Atonement is universal in nature and refers to… Read More »
Everything Else is Decidedly Risky
2 Pet. 1:20-21, “…knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” One would think that this Scripture will pave the way for… Read More »
A Rare Kind of Friendship
A Rare Kind of Friendship Pro. 17:17, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” How many friends do you have? Some claim to have thousands of friends and are quick to show you their social media friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. They boast of the sheer number of… Read More »
The Essence of Our Spirituality
The essence of our spirituality The essence of Christian spirituality lies in our relationship with God. Still, we are sadly incompetent when it comes to its application – at least without an example for us to benefit from. The commandment to Love God with our entire being – heart, soul, and mind implies a wholehearted… Read More »
All means all
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16). Most of us already know this scripture and undoubtedly have heard more than one sermon dealing with it over… Read More »
Do as I Say and Not as I Do!
“3. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4. and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5. to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word… Read More »
From Strangers to Family
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God…” (Eph. 2:19). Most of us have our earthly nuclear family; a father, mother, and maybe a sibling or two. We remain attached to them because of the bloodline, but often we… Read More »
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