Thursday, October 29, 2009
Oxymorons
Monday, October 26, 2009
Love Needs an Education
Paul prays that our love as Christians will abound in "real knowledge and all discernment." The Apostle knows that love needs an education before it will actually approve what is excellent.
"Love" can inadvertently approve what is evil; it happens all the time, e.g., Christian parents of homosexuals who think loving their child means full acceptance of - even celebration of - their sinful behavior. Only “real knowledge and discernment” will protect us from having our personal feelings distort our moral judgments. Even emotions like love should be theologically informed. Paul makes it clear elsewhere that it’s actually a lack of love to rejoice in what is unrighteous (1 Corinthians 13:6).
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
2 Timothy 4:3-5
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Greg Koukl on Moral Relativism
Monday, September 28, 2009
Never Read a Bible Verse.
In order to have a correct understanding of the Bible, people need to read the Bible the way it was designed to be read, as a book. If God wrote us a 10-page letter telling us to do something important, would we read the whole thing or just the parts that appeal to us?
How would you feel if you found out that everyone you cared about only read snippets of sentences in a book you put all your heart into making?
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15
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