What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Dragon series. Thank you to our audience for your incredible questi...
Ernest Hemingway once said that if something is moral, you feel good afterwards; if immoral, you feel bad afterwards. That’s a popular view of sin – many have lived by it. But it’s not a biblical view. Biblically, sin is an attitude of wanting your way instead of God’s way. Ho...
I am not saying that we should not address these things biblically, but what is happening, in my estimation, is that those topics are being addressed in the church by worldly thoughts and not in biblical thoughts. It is that very thing that led our church into a more biblically based deno...
Christ’s blood does not merely take away the guilt of our sin but also removes the powerful grip it holds on us, enabling us to choose righteousness over wickedness, allowing us to actually put sin to death even at the level of our desires. Here we have biblical truth, expounded clearly...
Well, water is scary. You go under water, you can't breathe. It's a picture of death and of the grave, and always has been, Biblically. The flood, God floods the world, that is a baptism, Peter tells us in 1st Peter, chapter 3. God sends Jonah into the deep, into the water,...
the stuff that makes bread rise (okay, maybe that’s yeast). Basically, it’s all the stuff that we don’t eat on Pesach (Passover). Bread, bagels, crackers, anything wheat that’s risen. Basically, anything flour and water that’s been allowed to ferment. Obviously this does not inc...
Watch expectations. Great relationships have differences. It is how you handle them that is critical. One who begins a relationship knowing that he/she does not have a right toexpecteverything he/shedesiressets himself/herself up for success. Living happily incompatibly is the goal. Discuss and...
What does it mean that humans are created in the image of God? In this episode, the guys discuss the biblical theme of the image of God and its implications for Jesus followers. As humans, we bear the image of God, but what is the purpose of this for us––what is the purpose for...
or make propitiation. When Peter tells the suffering Christians to extend covering love, that can’t be compared to God’s amazing covering of our sin; but our actions are to flow from His example. God’s love does not take into account a wrong after it’s been dealt with biblically—co...
spoke to the Church of Laodicea inRev 3:14-20, He was talking to a Church of people who thought they were Biblically Saved, when in reality they were obviously not. We will refer to the Term “Lukewarm Christians” in these SO4J Bible Studies on what it means to be a Lukewarm ...