You wake up in the morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed because you had a great evening last night and you are anticipating a wonderful day today. You get up, do that bathroom thing, have breakfast, and get your Bible to spend some time alone with God. Or you do that bathroom thing and grab your […]
This afternoon, I posted a short note about the sin of gossip. I got kind of fired up about it and want to say something else about the topic. Last time, I mentioned 1 Timothy 5:13 – “And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but […]
It occurred to me that we have forgotten what the Bible has to say about gossip. Or it could be that folks never knew what the Bible has to say about it. Or it could be that someone did a search for the word Gossip and found that it is only used one time in […]
Dr. Lawyer Do you do ever counseling via, let say Skype or something like that program? Good Christian lady 42 years, married to drug edict, has two children (girl 13 and son 6 y.o.), annoying thoughts, irrational fears, panic attacks, insomnia. Became very psychotic: doubt her faith. If you can help to do counseling through […]
In the last installment about Rights, I mentioned that the only right we’ve earned from God was the right to go straight to Hell for eternity. In this installment, I would like to lay a groundwork for the context of rights spoken of in the Bible. In a word, that context is all about grace. […]
We talk about rights in a number of different ways. One way is to say, “I have earned the right to X.” This seems to mean that I’ve done A, B, and C and therefore whatever X is it is right for me to have it, do it, or maybe be it. For example, “I’ve […]
I thought I would take a few moments to talk about rights. Someone told me this morning that I had told them that they didn’t “have any rights.” While I can’t remember saying that to them, I can imagine saying that to someone in a particular context. So, here’s the first of a couple of […]
“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is […]
Irony: noun. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. Irony is very often funny. Most of our favorite jokes depend upon the witty incongruities displayed by this literary device. But sometimes the disparity between what we expect and what actually occurs is just plain sickening. Allow me to illustrate: On March 29, […]
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