By Douglas Wilson Dear Janelle, I received your letter yesterday, and had already heard from your brother and sister-in-law. They confirmed for me the very difficult and challenging situation you are in with your husband, and they said that they had encouraged you to write to me with your question. I was glad to hear […]
This post is the continuation of this, this, and this. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part four. Answering some questions that some might be thinking. Questions and Answers that might have arisen from this post: Q: You said, “submit means obey.” Does this mean […]
This post is the continuation of this and this. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part three. Before we get to the nuts and bolts of what a wife is supposed to do, let’s talk for a moment about who is […]
This post is the continuation of this first post. I thought it might be helpful to give a more direct and detailed study of 1 Peter 3:1-6. This is part two. Peter then moves on to give a few examples of areas of life where this witness might be exhibited: regular citizens with human […]
1 Peter 3:1-6 Does it have anything to do with Us? In response to a blog post I wrote a month or so ago, several people commented that I had twisted Scripture when I applied 1 Peter 3:1-6 to a wife who was living with a husband who was very much less than loving toward […]
Counseling sounds like something the professionals do, but how should a Christian think about the relationship between their daily Bible reading and how it is equipping them to counsel those in their life? Right now, our church and others are doing what is called the Bible Reading Challenge. The purpose of this program is to help people get into […]
A few comments have helped me to understand that my recent post on tattoos was less clear than I wanted it to be. Here’s the point. It wasn’t really about tattoos. It was about Christians being worldly and not noticing. It also wasn’t about shoes, the Beatles, the Navy, or me either. That wasn’t the […]
There I was minding my own business, standing in the shower, you know, thinking about things, and it occurred to me what the problem with tattoos is: it is another example of Christians imitating the world. I know. How simple is that? Imagine what great thoughts one can have in the shower. Here’s how it […]
Excerpt from Toby’s Palm Sunday sermon. “When Jesus calls a man, it is abundantly clear that He demands everything. But this is good news because only Jesus knows what it will take to eradicate our sin. He must take our colts; He must overturn our tables; He must die. What is He doing? He’s healing us (Mt. 21:14).” […]
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