Life can be messy and regularly comes with pop-up challenges or brush fires. These canbe as simple as spilling your coffee on your work papers to being notified your husbandor wife has just been arrested for a DUI. Sometimes we are bombarded and have manyunmanaged brush fires all around. We need time to step back... Continue Reading →
Keeping Our Eye on the Ball
Faith is something unseen, invisible to human eyes: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1) So, sometimes what we believe can feel allusive, especially during difficulties. Our view of God can be limited by what we know, but also what we trust in the depth... Continue Reading →
God Hath Not Given Us The Spirit Of Fear
2nd Tim.1:7] For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. [8] Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of... Continue Reading →
MAD BAD Hermeneutical Terms
A while ago, I read a couple of books: “Evangelical Hermeneutics” by Robert L. Thomas and “Interpreting the Bible: An Overview of Hermeneutics” by Ernst R. Wendland. Meh. Robert Thomas’ book highlighted that the state of hermeneutics in Christian academia is a disaster. He said that hermeneutical authorities have taken it upon themselves to redefine... Continue Reading →
My, My, My x 3!
It’s often easy to see how a person can get caught up in performance based religion. Simply put, people tend to look at a single verse, without context, and build their doctrine based on the incomplete knowledge they have been given. One such instance can be found in Psalm 18:20: The Lord rewarded me according... Continue Reading →
Look at What We Have!
Text: Romans 5:1-5 Therefore… we are about to encounter some divine information concerning the results of what God has previously revealed to us regarding justification by faith (See Romans 3:21-26). Having established that justification cannot be obtained by one’s character, lineage, by the Law, ordinances, or religious ritual, but only by placing our faith in... Continue Reading →
