Proverbs 7 Women This chapter of Proverbs, on the surface, is a warning against adulterous women. It outlines the destruction that these women bring to those young men who lack sense and follow along with the temptation “as an ox goes to the slaughter” (verse 22). Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the…
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Powerful Peace
Fearful God From sermons to Bible studies, whenever the topic of fearing God comes up people begin stumbling all over themselves to explain how it may say fear, but it doesn’t really mean fear. While many who do this wouldn’t say that they deny the power or righteous anger of God, it’s hard to see…
Approving Excellence
Abounding Love In Paul’s greetings to the Philippian church, he encourages them with the knowledge that they are in his prayers. Specifically, he prays that their love may grow. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more Philippians 1:9a This is a common theme in all of the Epistles. The Apostles…
For His Name’s Sake
Appeal to God Not only has God told us about the amazing privilege we have been given through Christ to come before the creator of the universe with our thanks and concerns, but we are regularly commanded to practice that privilege. Prayer is so important that even when we don’t know how we ought to…
Unwanted Defense
Job’s Friends When people read the book of Job, it is understandable for us to relate with Job’s judgement that his friends were miserable comforters. He is in suffering and, because we have behind-the-scenes information, we know that it’s not even a consequence of bad behavior. In fact, we know that the reason trials are…
When To Answer
Rapid Response Many of us have grown up with a world of opinions at our fingertips. I’m revealing my age by admitting that I’m old enough to have lived through a childhood where you at least had to sit at a computer to access the internet (and I could only use mine when nobody was…
Not Against You
Not The Same Disagreements arise all the time in every aspect of life. We all have different life experiences which, if shared, would also be interpreted differently depending upon our natural temperaments. If we demand perfect agreement on all things than we cannot hope to get along. As I wrote in another post, unity is…
Governed Governors
Government is Good With all the corruption which can occur when power is consolidated to a few people/offices, it can be easy to think of government authority as a “necessary evil” (at best). In fact, many in Christian circles have associated the very idea of government authority to the rings from Lord of the Rings….
Forgotten Blood
Sacrifices The book of Leviticus contains rules regarding how the priests were to participate in the ritual life of the tabernacle (and later the temple). Many have expressed how they have trouble reading through this book because it’s a list of rules. While “rules” may accurately summarize this book, so does “death”. Death was constantly…
Jesus’s Wrath
Not a Carebear I have already addressed this topic, some years ago, in another post. However, it strikes me again and again how pervasive the “gospel of nice” is in the modern church. In this belief, which has deeply infiltrated the church, there is a counterfeit Jesus who, rather than being the Lord of Lords…