-
Join 426 other subscribers
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: wisdom
Devotion to God
Do you have spiritual A.D.D.? Attention Deficit Disorder? Physical A.D.D. is a widely (probably over-) diagnosed problem among kids these days, but it has been applied to a number of adults, too. This may be attributable to how we’ve trained … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged ADD, ADHD, attention, attention deficit disorder, baptism, Christ, church, devotion, disciples of jesus, faith, faithfulness, forgiveness, Gospel, grace, hope, love, meaning of life, mercy, obedience, olivia newton john, persecution, religion, sacrifice, salvation, spirituality, suffering, wisdom
Leave a comment
Tolerance 2
Yesterday I talked in this posting about tolerance’s virtues and vices. The world just gives “tolerance” a one-size- fits-all approach and tolerates everything, no matter how bad. But Christians are commanded to be tolerant about somethings and to refuse to … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, church, faith, false teaching, fear, grace, judgment, justice, love, mercy, obedience, persecution, pride, sacrifice, sin, wisdom
Leave a comment
“Church People Judge Me” — Lessons for Christians to Learn
Many avoid coming to church, according to research (see my last posting), because of fear that they will be judged instead of well received. Some of their fear of judgment is really just a bad conscience that doesn’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Uncategorized
Tagged Bible, care, church, encouragement, faithfulness, fear, forgiveness, grace, holidays, hope, judgment, love, obedience, opinions, sin, stumbling block, wisdom
Leave a comment
“Church People Judge Me”
I was reading the results of a survey recently on why people don’t go to church. One of the reasons most often cited is the fear that people in church will judge them. As a minister of the Gospel I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament, Uncategorized
Tagged Christ, courage, faith, faithfulness, fear, forgiveness, grace, hope, judgment, meaning of life, mercy, obedience, pride, repentance, wisdom
3 Comments
The Destructive Nature of Negative Attitudes
“Do all things without grumbling or disputing;” Philippians 2:14 Did you ever consider the strategy that Satan employed in the first temptation and sin? Oh sure, there was the lure of how delicious the forbidden fruit looked, there was the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity
Tagged church, courage, faith, fear, leadership, marriage, moses, negativity, positive thinking, prophecy, sin, wisdom
Leave a comment
Learning to follow before you lead
It has occurred to me a few times over the years after I read the stories of Jesus and His apostles that His teachings to the apostles about humility and service were of special importance in the discipleship training that … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Leadership, New Testament
Tagged church, faithfulness, Following, leadership, love, obedience, pride, sacrifice, shepherds, wisdom
Leave a comment
A divided church — 1 Corinthians 1-3
We ended yesterday’s blog with an strong warning from Paul to the Roman church about the sin of division. Paul certainly had good reason to worry about division in the church at Rome, but his concern was probably heightened from … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged agree, denominationalism, division, folly, foolishness, godly, love, spiritual, Temple, unity, wisdom, worldly
Leave a comment
What kind of man is this? — Matthew 8-10
I can already see that blogging through Matthew is going to be harder than blogging through the OT. There’s so much good stuff! What kind of man is this? One of the spookiest experiences that the apostles had as they … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged cross, discipleship, evangelism, great commission, signs, wisdom
Leave a comment
Running with horses — Jeremiah 10-12
Well, happy Lord’s Day to you. Sunday is my favorite day of the week. I get up about 5:15AM and study, pray, preach, fellowship, meet, write, prepare, and discuss until about 8:30 or 9PM in the evening. I may be … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, Old Testament
Tagged deafness, footmen, horses, idols, illumination, persecution, philosophers, scarecrow, wisdom
Leave a comment
parklinscomb 
The Pattern of God — The Pattern of Worship, Part 3
Over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about the patterns that God has given us with regard to the church and over the last couple of weeks the patterns regarding the church’s worship. Hopefully, it has become clear that God … Continue reading →