Scripture explains judgment as a“process of the mind”of which we use to differentiate moral acts that represent Christian qualities from disrespectful acts that bear an unrighteous purpose. For instance, judgment, in the form of common sense and evaluation, can help establish whether a situation...
Finally, Christ CHOSE to lay down his life and be crucified for our redemption. This was a specific event, which he could have stopped at any time. There are other examples in scripture where Jesus FLED because he knew his life was in jeopardy. It wasn’t time. Contrary to the way you...
If you have read your scriptures, then you should know that there was a deep hatred of the Assyrians within the Jewish community. Considering what scripture tells us about the Assyrians, Jonah’s lifetime of harmful interactions with the Assyrians would understandably feed into his racism and ...
all Protestants thought that the most fundamental problem with the Roman church was its mistaken truth claims, that is, its false doctrines. As we saw in the previous chapter, they offered their respective corrections based on scripture, variously supplemented by the inspiration...
What does the Bible say about so-called "assault weapons"? As always, we want our hearts and minds to be ruled and informed by Scripture--not by our emotions, not by our experiences, and certainly not by the World. And because the Scriptures have much to say about this topic, it is...
As I said at the top of this article, each Christian will be responsible for getting their own direct answer from the Lord on this very controversial issue. I believe that when you put all 5 of the above Scripture verses together side by side, the answer might be in the correct interpret...
I think it is one of the most beautiful indicators in scripture of what it means to have a relationship with the Savior…that he will know us and understand us completely. There will be no hidden agendas, no turning away from our weakness, but rather an embracing of it so that–and ...
Living by faith means living a life regulated by what God said: doing what He says to do and not doing what He says not to do. This means not just doing what God said, but doing it how He said. Scripture is replete with examples of men failing to submit to how God wanted it done...
28Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise.29At that time the son born according to the fleshpersecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit.It is the same now.30But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman...
It may be one of the most quoted phrases in Scripture. It’s used a lot when talking about God’s providence – how God seems to put us in the right place at the right time. God puts us in a position “for such a time as this.” It’s an often used phrase because it helps ...