A Righteous Life is a Simplified Life
Multi-tasking is challenging. A juggler who can keep seven balls aloft at one time is rare. Send article as PDF
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The Light of the World
The chasm between Satan’s low opinion of the righteous and God’s high esteem for them could not be any wider. In addition to calling His righteousness-pursuing disciples “the salt of the earth”, Jesus also declares that they are “the light of the world”…
To Be Effective: Be Distinctive
“Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mold” is the vivid way J. B. Phillips paraphrases Romans 12:2. Send article as PDF
Are You Doing Your Job?
Like a piece of raw meat left on a countertop in hot weather our world is always heading toward complete spiritual putrefaction. As Paul so explicitly and thoroughly describes in Romans 1:18-32, sin’s degeneration and degradation follow an inevitable course to the certain…
Who You Gonna Believe?
A fundamental question of this life is “Who you gonna believe?”. Send article as PDF
Genuine vs. Counterfeit Righteousness
Everything of great spiritual value has its counterfeits. Obviously, righteousness fits into the category of precious because Satan offers an imitation of it. To be genuinely righteous before God, your righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20). Send…
Spiritual Hedonism
Hedonism is the belief that pleasure ought to be the goal of one’s life. Spiritual hedonism is the belief that one’s life ought to be one continuous joy ride in communion with God. Neither belief is taught in God’s word. Send article…
Cush Who?
In Second Peter 2, the inspired penman seeks to drive home the point that “the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment (v. 9). To prove this…
The Holiness of the Holy, Holy, Holy God
A fundamental difference between the true and living God and the false gods of human imagination is that of Jehovah’s utter, uncompromising, pristine holiness. As pointed out by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist in their 2005 book Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives…
What Living by Faith Looks Like
One of Edgar Guest’s more famous poems begins with the line “I’d rather see a sermon.” Like sheep, humans need a leader to follow; like young students in school, humans need a pattern to imitate. When Jesus was asked “Who is my neighbor?”…