Old/New Testament God There’s a common misconception that comes up in discussions between believers, even within congregations led by Bible teaching pastors, that undermines the deity of Christ, the immutability of God, and/or the reliability of the Bible. This confusion is often expressed with the terms “Old/New Testament God”. When discussing this supposed divide, people…
Author: Jason
Long time software developer, husband, and father of 2 very active boys. My real passion is Christ's church. With God's help, I hope I can aid in the effort to edify and encourage maturity within the body until we all reach the fullness of maturity in Christ!
Gospels That Aren’t Worth Dirt
Parable of the Soils And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since…
Giving Until It Hurts
Get One Thing Straight Before addressing a problem that we have in modern Christian culture, I want to make sure those reading this don’t use this article as an excuse to not give financially. I recently had a friend recommend I read some writing from Jonathan Edwards on charitable giving and would recommend it to…
God’s Refinement
It’s not unusual to hear about God’s refining work within a believers life. God sanctifies believers through trials and commonly the refining of precious metals is invoked as an object lesson. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness…
A More Excellent Way
How can we be strengthened for this way? The excellent way to live life, and more specifically to live the Christian life within the church, is not going to be easy. In fact, with man, it would be impossible. However, Christ is capable of taking his rag-tag group of people with all sorts of backgrounds,…
A Christian’s Worth
Not About Self-Esteem For most of my life, I’ve been surrounded with the doctrines of the church of self-esteem. It has promoted itself under the guise of preventing suicide, improve happiness, and even increase morality in society. The idea is that, if people could convince themselves they are awesome, they would enjoy life more and…
What Should I Do?
Our concerns may be about career decisions, who we should marry, whether to make an expensive investment, whether to move, etc… These decisions may appeal to us because of the perceived blessings that could come with moving to a new area or changing jobs, but usually our minds will also go to all that could…
Seven Day Sabbath
Common Views Within the Christian circles that I read and travel, I’ve met people who hold differing views on what Sabbath ought to be for a Christian. Throughout most of church history, the body gathered together for services on Sundays. In some western countries, you can see this observance reflected in the workweek where businesses…
The Gospel
Saved From What? The good news is that Jesus saves, but that could mean almost anything without context. There are people who look into Jesus hoping to be saved from financial hardship, depression, loneliness, or any number of other sufferings of this life. While following Jesus can offer a way of life which can bring…
Press On To Maturity
Entirely Beside the Point Today, I’m going to work on unpacking a chapter that is discussed fairly often, but is largely misunderstood because the modern church is guilty of the very thing the chapter warns against to such an extent that it completely fits in our blind spot! You’ve likely heard people talk about what…