Month: October 2013
7 posts
Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart—Romans 10:9-10
We often quote Romans 10:9-10 out of context, though we get the basic idea correct (it is talking…
Not rightly discerning the body—1 Corinthians 11:17-34
When Jesus met with his disciples the night before his crucifixion, he ate a meal with them. In…
Slaves and slaveholders—Ephesians 6:5-9
Early U.S. slaveholders did not want slaves to hear the gospel because they feared that the slaves would…
Religion is not enough—Matthew 24
Matthew’s Gospel includes five discourse sections. The last of these (chaps. 23—25) begins with Jesus pronouncing judgment on…
Near the broken, far from the proud—1 Samuel 1:1-2, 6-20
Often in history, revival flourishes among the lowly and the broken and spreads from there. Sometimes we get…
The down payment—2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 1:13-14
Did you know that we have already begun to taste the future world? We are visitors in this…
In God’s presence—John 14—16
Some of us feel that we have to earn our way into God’s presence when we pray—that somehow…