Beware the False Teacher
Sep 26
False Teachers Use Their Public Image to Further Their Evil Doings This is, indeed, a fitting description of many modern liberal theologians, religious bureaucrats in the big denominations, "New Age" preachers, college teachers of religion and para-church organizations working in the local community, etc.
Deliverance From Evil Works
Sep 14The Lord deserves praise for His protective and sustaining hand. It is He and He alone who is able to deliver. In his last recorded words, Paul, as he reflected on God’s faithful working throughout his life and ministry, exhorted us to give glory now and forever to Him. Soon, the executioner released him from his battered body to enjoy God’s everlasting preservation.
Backsliding. Watch that first step!
Feb 25
“And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle … But David tarried still at Jerusalem. And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.” II Samuel 11:1-2
Halloween and the Christian Church
Feb 23
Each year Christians are faced with the social pressure of this event we call “Halloween.” Our children are exposed to it at school and through commercial advertising, displays, and items to be sold, and they find it hard to resist being a part of all the festivities. Many Christians find it harmless “fun” and see no reason to oppose it. Other churches and believers attempt to “compete” with it by having special “harvest festivals” (or similar such events) at the church facilities so that families can have an alternative for their children. For information’s sake, here are a few facts: Halloween had its beginnings in an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples, who were once found all over Europe, divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. The date marked the beginning of winter. Since they were pastoral people, it was a time when cattle and sheep had to be moved to closer pastures and all livestock had to be secured for the winter months. Crops were harvested and stored. The date marked both an ending and a beginning in an eternal cycle.
Are you carnally minded?
Feb 17
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. But the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; so that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of flesh, but they who are according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be. So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.” Romans 8:1-8 The Holy Spirit who indwells all true believers (Galatians 3:27) constantly reminds us of our propensity for “carnal thinking.” There are a number of reasons why someone thinks and acts “carnally”. God’s lays the reasons for “carnality” clearly in the Book of Romans: They fill their minds with carnal thoughts (Romans 8:5) They face a future without hope (Romans 8:6) They fight against God and His Word (Romans 8:7) They walk, act, speak and think in the flesh and cannot please God (Romans 8:8) The Apostle Paul rebuked the Corinthian believers in their carnality also – describing them as “fleshly”, “babes”, requiring “milk instead of solid fool” and not being spiritual: “And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual ones, but as to fleshly, as to babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk and not with solid food, for you were not yet able to bear it; nor are you able even now. For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men? For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?” I Corinthians 3:1-4
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