Tag: forgiveness
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God’s Lovingkindness According to His Law: Reflecting on Psalm 119
The psalmist reflects on the Law of God. The Law is good. It provides the path to happiness and satisfaction in life. It even facilitates a just and equal society. The Law has many benefits, but I have to wonder about salvation. No one perfectly keeps the Law. All people sin and fall short of…
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When Someone Personally Offends Me
As Paul addresses the division and immaturity of the local church at Corinth, He comes to the subject of personal offenses, quarrels, and lawsuits between members of the congregation. Immediately preceding his instruction concerning personal offenses, Paul instructed the church about church discipline and excommunication. Church discipline was to be practiced when a so-called brother…
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Apologetics: Conclusion
The conclusion to our current apologetics series–The 10 Commandments of Dialogue. How we dialogue with those who disagree with us is more important than winning an argument. At the end, we consider the basic proposition of the new racial justice movement (Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality) to see how we should engage the movement with…
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The Prophetic Vision of the Resurrection
In John 20, we read one account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave. Peter walked into the tomb and saw only the linen shroud. He called John to see that Christ’s body was missing. John saw and believed. In 20:9, the narrative provides us an interesting detail. They, Peter and John, did…
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The Great Exchange
David is in the Forest at Hereth with his 400 renegades. Saul has received news of David’s presence in Judah. In today’s passage, we see two different mentalities presented. Saul concerns himself with casting blame on others while David imputes Saul’s guilt to himself. In this passage, we are led to consider the doctrine of…
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Does God Really Answer Prayer? How? Why?
How many of you have ever experienced answered prayer? I have on several occasions. In my early teenage years, I had asthma and I remember my lower back constantly aching. Someone prayed for my asthma and back problems and I woke up the next day able to breathe and not aching and I haven’t had…
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God’s Structure for Ministry
Previously, we began discussing together the structure that God has for His people both in the Old Testament and in the New. We have discovered that God is building a kingdom of priests, where every believer is a priest. From that kingdom, God calls out positional priests (the pastors, elders, overseers, and bishops of the…
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Forgiveness
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said to one another, “If Joseph is holding a grudge against us, he will certainly repay us for all the suffering we caused him.” So they sent this message to Joseph, “Before he died your father gave a command: ‘Say this to Joseph: Please forgive…
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The Sin Binge: what we may not realize about the nature of sin
What does sin do to us? In western culture today, people seem to not worry about the negative effects of sin as an action. We accept our imperfection and we move on without even striving to be better. Instead we embrace that imperfection, making statements like: “I’m just gonna do me!” “Don’t judge me!”…