Archive for 2016
We Are Truly God’s Temple
“Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) The church in the New Testament has replaced the sacred Old Testament temple. The New Testament says that Christ’s body is a temple (John 2:19-21), the universal church is a temple (Ephesians…
Read MoreThink About IT: Face the Future with Humility, Not Confidence
Humility rather than confidence is the proper apparel of security. In the security of our lives going well, we can often envisage ourselves as acting supremely in future difficulties or if we were suffering the present peril of others. We should learn from Peter. Christ told Peter of his future denial of Him, and Peter…
Read MoreThink About IT: Faithfulness Tomorrow Is to Fail Today
The call to be faithful concerns today only. No one can live faithfully in the near or distant future. For example, one cannot walk in faith tomorrow, or even an hour from now because faithfulness exists only in the moment. People may desire to live out their lives being faithful to God, and therefore concern…
Read MoreThink About It: Resurrection Is Impossible without Death
As the prophets of old before Him, Christ promised that He would rise from the dead. That is a celebrative and uplifting promise. However, the truth is, He also predicted His death. His death was the worst of all deaths because His death was a ransom for the sins of the world. He died swathed…
Read MorePraying against Bitterness
Oh Lord please, I beseech you, guard my heart, and mind. Guard them from pondering ingratitude, betrayals, arrogant religious talk, and others self-righteousness lest I become what you loathe. For to ponder such can only lead to dying from within as the root of bitterness’s fecundity produces growth that chokes the Word in my life…
Read MoreThink About IT: The Greatness of Great Loyalty
Great loyalty stands as a beacon of life and is most clear in the storms of disloyalty. Ordinary loyalty is characteristic of the many and the good times, but Great loyalty alone survives and shines during the dark tempest of disloyalty of the many. For it is in the gales of disloyalty by those in…
Read MoreThink About IT: The Bondage of Want
Christians must always remember whom we are to love and what we are to like. The difficulty in giving up the comforts of this life should remind Christians to be modest in our acquisitions of them, lest we find ourselves choosing financial bondage rather than separating from them. Extra comforts and opportunities in this life…
Read MoreThe Need to Equip the Saints
When Christians experience prolonged infancy and satisfaction with milk beyond normal infancy, they will have an immature and incomplete Christian worldview, which inevitably results in them advocating ideas that are merely human wisdom. George Barna’s research revealed, “Only 9% of all American adults have a biblical worldview. [Those labeled] born again Christians, the study discovered…
Read MoreCalvinism’s View of the Origin of Sin and God’s Offer of Salvation
Calvinists believe that man is free to choose according to his greatest desire. For example, Jonathan Edwards believed in what he called “strength of motive.”[1] He said concerning such, “I suppose the will is always determined by the strongest motive.”[2] Therefore, Edwards argued that one freely chooses to act according to his “strongest motive.” Regarding…
Read MoreA Supportive Response to Peter Lumpkins Article About the ERLC & Trump Voters
Below is a brief supportive comment that I wrote in response to an article by Peter Lumpkins on SBC Today entitled, Joe Carter, the ERLC and Division over Donald Trump (Parts 1 and 2).[1] Peter’s article responds to some general statements from the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) that continually positions those who may…
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