We need to be careful of how we relate to the world and unbelievers. Although we are called to share the gospel, we are still warned repeatedly about how we are to use caution when we interact with the world. If we are not careful, unbelieving worldly people will lead us astray.
Even those that claim [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Sin'
Friendships – Bad Company Ruining Good Morals or Iron Sharpening Iron?
June 27, 2009
Love Not The World…
May 20, 2009
1 John 2:15-16
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but [...]
Bible Reading Does Nothing For Me??
May 15, 2009
Have you ever thought that no matter how much you read the Bible you just can’t get into it?
That you just read words and quickly forget them?
That it is just a waste of time?
This story is one I’ve heard Paul Washer tell in some of his sermon’s. This is just my retelling of it so [...]
What Is Your Response to a Rebuke?
May 12, 2009
Psalms 141:5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. ESV
Proverbs 1:23 If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. ESV
Proverbs 3:11-12
11 My son, [...]
Our Fallen World
May 9, 2009
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ESV
Genesis 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made,
and behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. ESV
How did the earth go from
“it was very good”
to this?
Man’s SIN!!!
Genesis 3:14-15
14 The Lord [...]
“Immature” Believers
May 7, 2009
What should our response be to a Christian that is exhibiting behavior not in keeping with the faith?
What do we do when we find a believer in sin?
Do we ignore them and pray that eventually they will get the message?
Or do we instruct them?
Does it really matter?
We should always turn to the Scriptures to see [...]
We Should Watch What We Watch – Take Heed What You See
May 5, 2009
Yesterday I posted about Take Heed What You Read – AW Pink where you should give heed to what you fill your mind with as you read.
Isaiah has a good quote from Spurgeon about the same subject that One Mouthful Is Quite Enough. Be sure to think about the meat analogy.
But not only do we [...]
God’s Timing is Perfect In All Things
April 27, 2009
Some days you get reminded that God’s timing is perfect. Not that it isn’t always perfect but that we as selfish, sinful creatures forget that God holds everything in His Hands. There is not one thing that occurs without the Lord being in total supervision.
Last night I got an comment from a relative that was [...]
Killing Sin – John Owen
April 6, 2009
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the [...]
Serving Two Masters? by Chris Cunningham
March 8, 2009
“I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”
(Romans 7:25)
We know that no man can serve two masters. — “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; [...]
The Dead Church – Sardis
January 17, 2009
The Death of a Church
What kind of death did the church suffer? Spiritual death. People who did not even know Jesus Christ were operating the church. You say, “Can that happen?” It’s happening today to many churches like Sardis. There are dead men in the pulpits, dead men in the pews, and dead men running [...]
Jewels from Romans #10
January 2, 2009
Romans 6:1-5
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore [...]
Jewels from Romans #8
December 28, 2008
Romans 2:17-24
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;
19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in [...]
Jewels from Romans #6
December 26, 2008
Romans 3:10-18
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their [...]
Jewels from Romans #5
December 23, 2008
Romans 2:14-16
14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts [...]
Teaching About Sin is Considered Child Abuse?
November 18, 2008
Those of us who are free to Homeschool and raise our children as we wish should be prayerful that our freedom is not taken for granted. Before long the government will decide that not allowing children to do what ever they want is child abuse. Teaching them about the sin in their lives will be [...]
Perils of Pride #8: Pride of Self-Righteousness
November 4, 2008
Luke 18:9-14
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable:
10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not [...]
Perils of Pride #7: Pride of Imagined Authority
November 1, 2008
Matthew 20:20-28
20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.
21 “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.”
22 “You [...]
Caedmon’s Call – CCM’s continued downgrade
October 30, 2008
Defending.Contending. had this post about a CCM music group who is allowing their music to be used on Grey’s Anatomy, a show that according to others is based on the character’s promiscuity and adultery.
CCM’s long line of disappointments continues with Caedmon’s Call.
And once again I am shocked by the latest news of yet more compromise [...]
Perils of Pride #6: Pride of Over-Commitment
October 28, 2008
Luke 10:38-42
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.
39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.
40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be [...]