If Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates, who alternate between who is the richest man in the world, told you that if you did not eat anything for a while and kept it to yourself that he would reward you, would you take him up on it? I’ve asked a lot of people this …
Fasting, Standing Strong in Persecution, and Reward Read More »
There’s a verse in the Bible that has scared me since I was thirteen years old—and it still scares me. The verse that scares me is 1 Timothy 1:19-20: “keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so …
One way many strive to calm their fear of death is to “live in the moment,” or live in the present. The idea is simple: if you focus your awareness on the present moment then you won’t be thinking about the fact that you will one day die. Living in the moment and mindfulness meditation …
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Over the years I’ve learned that many Christians believe that there are many good non-Christians After all, if you actually know some good non-Christians, then there must be good non-Christians, right? That’s not what Jesus thought and that humans outside of Christ aren’t good is the second most untaught doctrine in American Christianity (second only …
Monday I began this series talking about that if you’re allowing unrepentant sexual sin to exist in your life then you’re probably not saved. Yesterday, I posted about “A Sure-Fire Way to Stop Looking at Porn.” In that post I shared how I discipline myself not to lust. But, there’s so much more than that. …
Yesterday I posted that true Christians cannot go on living in unrepentant sexual sin, but Christians need help! Here’s my story. The first time I found porn at six or seven-years-old, I thought we could be friends for life. From then on, my “forts” were as full of porn as I could find (I should …
Often on TV, Jean and I have seen people proclaim that they are Christians, that “my faith is very important to me,” and talk openly about Jesus, but they say these things while they are living in overt, unrepentant sexual sin. Hopefully, that’s not you. But if it is, then you probably aren’t saved, and, …
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If you look at my past posts you’ll find that I tend to avoid anything political but if a political/economic theory contradicts Christian theology, then that needs to be exposed. One such theory is Marxism. I can’t think of a political/economic theory that has failed more resoundingly than Marxism. Although Marxism always fails, it is …
Many of you already know that as of August 15, 2020, that I left Talbot School of Theology as a full-time professor (you can read why in my post “Why I’m Leaving Talbot School of Theology”). So you won’t be surprised to hear that since May 13, 2019, when I found out I would be …
The appalling death of George Floyd rightly upset the nation, but we’ve also watched people loot and burn businesses (many of them owned by African Americans), beat the innocent (some of them African Americans), and injure and kill police officers (sometimes African American police officers). We shouldn’t be surprised. There is something going on here …
