Despite the shallow opinions of some, doubt is a healthy thing – as long as it’s honest doubt. Many today think of faith as a blind belief without any evidence, but this is a wrong characterization of Christian faith. The people in the early church did not change the world because of blind belief, but [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matt 5:48
As we were preparing to enter into prayer this morning, a friend and I were discussing the fact that it appears that so many people around us seem to believe that the only people destined for hell are those who have done the major sins (whatever they perceive them to be). The opinion seems to [...]
Sins of the Fathers
And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! [...]
Marriage Takes a Soft Heart
Matt 19:4-6
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore [...]
True Circumcision
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh — Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” (Jer 9:25-26)
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Bread Of Life
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.” (John 6:68-69 NIV)
It’s easy to forget in the ministry of Jesus that He also faced the attrition of His following. In John 6, after He spoke [...]
The Church Today
This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the LORD. “This is the one I esteem: he [...]
