Tag: Ethics

  • The Problem of Pain: Perfect Paradox

    The Problem of Pain: Perfect Paradox

    God is perfect, at least that’s what you claim. Tell me how a perfect God can create anything imperfect. Yet, according to your holy book, the very prize of God’s creation fails. The most important of God’s works is also the most depraved and the cause of all suffering in the world. People are selfish.…

  • Getting Back to Our Roots: Before Appointing New Pastors in 1 Timothy 1

    Getting Back to Our Roots: Before Appointing New Pastors in 1 Timothy 1

    Pastoral ministry is unique in this world. Many men are called to pastoral ministry. Because of the season my church family is in, I want to spend some time looking with fresh eyes at the pastoral letters in their context. In the First Century, things didn’t work like they do now. While we can see…

  • Ethics: Abortion and Stem Cell Research

    Ethics: Abortion and Stem Cell Research

    According Gallup’s 2017 ethics poll, about 43% of Americans believe abortion to be morally acceptable. This number has not changed significantly in several years, which is surprising because the voice in favor of abortion is significantly louder than it has been in the past. According to the same poll, about 61% of Americans believe that…

  • Ethics: Polygamy and Divorce

    Ethics: Polygamy and Divorce

    The importance of a study in ethics has become abundantly clear to us at this point. So, we must question the morality of the things that we see in our own context. Many Christians get funny when we begin talking about issues of morality. We know what we believe to be right or wrong, but…

  • Ethics: On Discerning Moral Action

    Ethics: On Discerning Moral Action

    Last time we were together, we began our series on ethics and we discovered that the moral decisions we make are an overflow of what is going on in our hearts, and this especially applies to the words we say. If we hide evil in our hearts, evil things will come out as we speak…