Introduction: Brothers and sisters, we are in a battle. It is the same battle that the saints of Christ have been in since the beginning and it is the same battle the original readers were fighting when Peter wrote this letter to them. I would like to draw your attention to some of the things […]
More About Gossip
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 […]
Gossip in the age of Social Media
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 […]
Discipline–Spiritual Sweat
In a word, he is calling for some spiritual sweat! Just as athletes discarded everything and competed gymnos [naked] – – free from everything that could possibly burden them – – so we must get rid of every encumbrance, every association, habit, and tendency which impedes godliness. If we are to excel, we must strip […]