God Calls Us to Move Beyond Tolerance and to Love Others Our culture today talks a lot about being tolerant. Our politically correct society upholds tolerance as a virtue. It’s a position held by so-called enlightened people that we are to tolerate others regardless of their belief, behaviors, or ethnicity. It all seems so right, […]
Selfless versus Selfish When asked, “What is the opposite of love,” most people immediately say “hate.” Indeed the two words are antonyms for the other. The dictionary confirms this, and the Bible supports it. Yet there’s another answer worthy of consideration: selfishness. Selfishness is also the opposite of love. From a worldly perspective, the opposite […]
Many People Like an Easy Jesus, But Not Everyone Accepts What He Says Jesus normally teaches the masses in parables. Though most don’t really understand what he means, they like his stories because they’re so countercultural. In addition, he sometimes gives them food and heals them. He’s a cool speaker who does nice things for […]
False Teachers Slander and Will Be Destroyed Over the years I’ve heard many ministers talk about things they didn’t understand. Not biblical or spiritual things, but worldly things. Out of ignorance they condemn certain people for their actions, slandering them in the process. This is why the world doesn’t understand Jesus and his church. This […]
Though the Bible Tells Us to Judge, Who We’re Supposed to Judge May Shock You When Paul writes to his friends in Corinth, he has much to say because they struggle with many things, including judging others. He spends a whole chapter in his first letter addressing sin within their assembly: sexual sin, specifically incest. […]
Give Thanks to the Lord Today’s passage: Psalm 136 Focus verse: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. (Psalm 118:29) As we covered in yesterday’s reading, we should offer God our thanksgiving for our salvation, spiritual blessings, and physical provisions. Not only that, but we can also praise him […]
Luke Bible Study, Day 21 Today’s passage: Luke 10:1–37 Focus verse:“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27) We call one of Jesus’s more beloved teachings the parable of the good […]
Discover What Scripture Says I’ve read through the Bible many times and can find no same-sex marriages in Scripture. Zero. Beyond that, I see no homosexual relationships either. Though some may try to twist the biblical narrative and take it out of context, they’re wrong to do so. They can’t theorize the existence of same […]
We Are the Bride of Christ The final word picture to help us better understand God, is perhaps the most startling and difficult to comprehend, even shocking. In this word picture, we consider him as the groom (the Bible often uses the word “bridegroom”) and us as his bride (Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 2:2, Revelation 19:7, […]
Love, Truth, and Stability We live in a world where people are increasingly lonely, unsettled, and unanchored. But it doesn’t need to be that way. We can change our focus and our priorities. Here are three key things people crave: love, truth, and stability. Inherently we all want to realize these three things. And we […]