Life can be tough. We all face challenges, struggles, and even victories that can leave us feeling drained and in need of support. Starting the day with a morning prayer for strength helps us face whatever lies ahead. When we ask God for His strength, we remember that we’re not meant...
God does not simply see the behaviors of humanity; God sees why people do what they do. How many of you have been harmed greatly by someone who seemed to not get what the problem is? How many of you have been harmed by a professing Christian? Ah, it stings a bit more when they ...
This is because, in many cases, the Crew does not know what they are supposed to be doing. Ephesians 4:12 clears this up by assigning two tasks to the crew. The crew is to do the work of the ministry and edify the body of Christ. The Work of Ministry The first task of the Crew...
profession of faith does not include the other parts found only in Matthew’s gospel. A strange omission if Peter understood himself to be the sole head of the church. Historically, the first bishop of Jerusalem was James, the Lord’s half-brother. The Pope was long called the “bishop of...
Notice that he does not say, “What must I do to get to heaven?” Eternal life and heaven, as I’ve preached before, are not synonymous. “Eternal life” is the life lived in communion with God; the rich young man is saying to Jesus, “I want to be as close to God as I am ...
Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.” (Mark 4:26–28) “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, ...
Aren’t all the slaves in the Bible and throughout history also God’s children? How does God prove to love them? God does not prove to love them. God does prove to have them suffer and to kill them. Judge: I am the judge here. I will decide what is to be judged. For the ...
Someone once gave me this heuristic: If a thought does not bring a sense of life and grace with it, it is not from God. God is love. He is Life. He is good. He is truth. There is no shadow in him. This is the filter through which I evaluate all thoughts. We are told to ...
Does she exist? No.Never. But in my mind she haunts me. The harder I try and then “fail”, she reminds me that I’m not enough, I’m not “her”, I’m not ever going to keep my house organized, I don’t laugh enough or play enough with my children, I don’t serve enough...
So clearly Paul does not believe that women should not teach under any circumstance and is not forbidding women from doing so. The best way to understand the kind of teaching Paul is forbidding in this particular verse is in the context he provides in it –to exercise authority over man. ...