Tag Archives: sin
It’s striking that the Old Testament (OT) speaks very little of the devil and his minions, but once we turn the page and enter into the world of the New Testament (NT) they seem to crawl out of the (worm)woodwork. Why?
Genesis introduces us to Satan but it isn’t until the NT that his mask is torn…..
The heavens declare the glory of God – the whole creation has been groaning.
(Psalm 19:1 & Romans 8:22)
How do we make sense of a planet that simultaneously sings and sobs?
In the beginning, God gave a spoken word performance of cosmic proportions.
And God…..
God is love, yet our postmodern culture has taken linguistic license and redefined divine love as tolerance. Tolerance, properly understood, is a good thing when implemented frugally but becomes a big problem when it becomes a blank check. I think that perhaps the most helpful definition of tolerance is the one used in the sciences: the allowable deviation from a…..
The three amigos of pain, suffering, and death continue to interrupt our life fiestas. Instead of being blessed by a plethora of piñatas our days seem to be nothing but repeated encounters with El Guapo. Why?
A purely materialistic understanding of the world would render these concerns meaningless because pain, suffering, and death are merely the sculpting tools of…..
True Christianity requires that we admit our sinfulness, accept the fact that we are incapable of saving ourselves, and trust in the only Savior who can. We must, however, begin by admitting our hands are dirty before we can make our way to the sink of salvation.
In the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards noted that the first thing active in conversion was an overwhelming…..
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been…..
It seems that every several weeks we are treated to another politician being strung up for a youthful indiscretion. The opposing party finds the proceedings quite entertaining as they watch them, “eat their own,” but unbeknownst to them a political roast of their own making is in the oven waiting to be served up. I find this quite interesting…..
Jesus didn’t die to make us happy. He died because He loved us so much that He didn’t want us to suffer from the consequences of our sin. Sadly, many of our churches have become clearing houses for therapy literature rather than hospitals for sinners. Trying to be PC, the church often transforms the Bible into a self-help book written…..
We cannot base the case for Christianity on the argument that it will make us better behaved humans because both Atheist and Christian alike are image-bearers capable of doing good things. Likewise, we cannot argue that Christianity will prevent us from doing bad things because the church has also been involved in morally questionable behavior. A tally sheet of good…..
I have always loved the sea. I remember making my way down to Huntington Beach many times during my residency when my stress level began to rise. I would just stand on the shoreline and stare out at the vast ocean beyond and watch my worries and cares recede with each subsequent wave. It is really quite…..
