I am like you, someone who has sinned. Perhaps my sin nature was a bit more indulgent than yours. Perhaps not. Any sin separates us from God and demands a verdict of eternal damnation. In God’s eyes, all my sin is forgiven. In God’s eyes, I am His beloved child. In God’s e...
Yes, gossip is a sin. You don’t have to be a Bible scholar to know that gossip is sin. Gossip divides. Gossip destroys. Gossip defames. Gossip is deadly. These types of actions are opposite to how God would want us to interact with each other and speak about each other. We are co...
Hate actively separates people from one another because it is an active decision tootherize, a word that means “to view or treat as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself.” This refers to someone being seen as so alien to oneself or a culture that they can be perceived as les...
The uncomfortable truth is this: the evil desire tugging away at usis our own. We can’t blame any of the things around us. It is not the fault of our parents, our peers, our circumstances, our genes or our God… My circumstances may be the occasion for my sin, but they are not ...