1 Timothy 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. Among the things you don’t really care about: I typically use the NIV’s English translation for my work for no reason other than it’s a pretty easy read. Why do I tell you this if you don’t care? Because today, I’ve gone with a different translation: the […]
I look over the political landscape and my heart weeps. So this is my prayer: Sovereign Lord, I look over the American landscape and over American history and see the blessings You have given us for so long. I see the freedom You gave us in our laws and the grace You have shown us […]
In the script from the movie Chariots of Fire, Harold M. Abrahams is preparing to run in his final race in the 1924 Paris Olympics. He addresses his fellow athlete, Aubrey Montague saying, “You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You’re brave, compassionate, kind: a content man. That is your secret, contentment; I am 24 […]
Jeremiah 17: 4 “Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.” 5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, […]
Sober is a word most of us associate with one thing: substance abuse. But another word in the Greek often translated as self-control is a word also meaning sober. Of a right or sound mind. In Titus, various forms of the word and its synonyms are used frequently. The Apostle Paul has just finished pointing […]
Repentance is only one side of the coin. The other side is self-control. It’s one thing to repent, do the sin again, and repeat as if it’s a cycle and acceptable to do it over and over. Self-control is one of those things that we want but we don’t. We want all the power and […]
Who needs to repent? It’s easy to point the finger at others instead of looking in the mirror. You see, it’s not just pagans, infidels, and those we decide to label as lost souls who need to repent. It’s all of us. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every […]
One of the casualties of refusing to call a spade “a spade” … or a sin “a sin”… is that it makes repentance completely unnecessary. * * * If all truth is relative and no sin is immoral, then no one needs to repent because what they did was right… in their own eyes. Repentance […]
Uh-oh, you may be thinking. Outrage. There she goes again. But love and understanding are only one part of the equation. When love and understanding meet injustice and sin, it’s only natural to experience what God does: outrage. Wrath—the biblical word for outrage—speaks of God’s righteous anger at what harms those He both loves and created. […]
Last week, I asserted that compromising of good and evil doesn’t bring glory to God at all. There is no life in that. For Lent, it’d be good to give up that notion of compromise on moral issues since it’s actually saying that God’s truth is not absolute and God is not God. It’s time […]
