Tag: relationship
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Daily Devotional: Romans 13:1-6
After Paul applies monergistic doctrine to the lives of people—insisting that Christians always consider others to be more important than themselves, do not seek retribution, but love and serve even their enemies, I’m sure there are some questions. There are questions when I teach those principles in our own day. What about justice? Are we…
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Against Human Religion
Jesus is in a conversation with the chief priests and elders who challenged his authority. He tells his second parable against them. Matthew 21:33-46 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented…
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Law vs. Gospel: An Unnecessary Conflict
There is a church I know that is still meeting even though it’s bad for the people in our current COVID-19 season. What’s worse, they are making people feel bad about not going. They preach and teach that a person is saved by grace, but must do something. Every Fundamental Baptist Church I have engaged…
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What is Christian Maturity?
There are two definitions of maturity that Christians today consider as they think of how they can grow in their Christian faith. The first, is the maturity one has in his or her relationship with God. To symbolize this definition, I could ask how close you are to God. The second, and most often used…