Monday, March 20, 2023

Spiritual warfare #7

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Remember Job? He is described this way, “There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete inte...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Spiritual warfare #6

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 While the tendency is to believe that a demon cannot possess a true believer in Christ, there is also the tendency to overlook the ability ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Spiritual warfare #5

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 Today’s spiritual warfare lesson is the claim that Satan can fill the heart of the believer. We see this in Acts 5:3, “But Peter said, “Ana...
Monday, February 20, 2023

Spiritual warfare #4

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One of the most dangerous teachings of the American church is “eternal security.” It’s dangerous because reduced to a mantra, it is misunder...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Spiritual warfare #3

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 There are five ways to understand God. Some deny God’s existence (atheism). Others dislike or reject God (agnostic). Others would ignore Go...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Spiritual warfare #2

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 Spiritual warfare #2   Christian mythology (a.k.a. “theology”) has created a toothless, clawless, and witless devil. Let me remind the ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Spiritual warfare #1

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January 31 2023   Christians are drawn to myth. When we enter the realm of the spiritual, physical beings are stuck trying to understand som...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Faith #7 (Wanting more)

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  January 11, 2023   It stinks that faith does not always achieve goals or accomplish anything directly. Hebrews 11:13 admits, “All thes...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Faith #6 (Never a solo act)

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December 23, 2022   Sometimes, the results of “faith” require other people. Hebrews 11:12 states, “Therefore from one man, and him as go...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Faith #5 (Sarah)

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 December 22, 2022   Faith is not just the purview of men. “By faith even Sarah received the ability to have a child, though she herself...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

Faith #4 (Abraham)

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 December 7, 2022 Occasionally, there seems to be a gap between how we read the Old Testament and what the New Testament appears to be tel...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Faith #3 (Abel)

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August 24, 2022 (Wednesday)   You'd think that people of faith would (or should) be walking around singing "Everything is Aweso...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Faith #2 (Creation)

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August 19, 2022 (Friday)   It is important for us to understand saving faith. It completely rests on Jesus. I believe it is significant ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Faith

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August 18, 2022 (Thursday)   After tossing out a head scratcher at the end of Hebrews 10 (the possibility of shrinking back in our faith...
Friday, August 12, 2022

One-way ticket

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August 12, 2022 (Friday)   I am saddened when people who should know better become deniers. I’m not talking about things like denying th...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

In Christ

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June 30, 2022 (Thursday)   Let’s do a reality check. We can wonder how good we have to be to get to heaven. However, I suspect when we a...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Eternal Security?

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June 29, 2022 (Wednesday)   When we talk about the theology of salvation in certainties, we speak ignorance. Seldom is the Bible flat-footed...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Roe v Wade

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June 24, 2022 (Friday)   Today, the US Supreme court ruling took a baby-step to restoring our country to sanity. Nobody who supports tha...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Recovering from rebellion

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June 16, 2022 (Thursday)   David was not the only writer of a Psalm. Several Psalms were written by Korahites. These were the sons of Ko...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Person of peace

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June 15, 2022 (Wednesday)   It feels to me that we are living in a world hostile to Jesus. Being hostile to Jesus means having an extrem...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Another paradox

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June 10, 2022 (Friday)   Another “head scratcher” is the story of the “witch of Endor.” When Saul became king, he followed the Law conce...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

Balaam paradox

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June 8, 2022 (Wednesday)   Every now and then we run across something or someone in the Bible that we can’t make sense of because of our...