When We Understand The Text
WARNING: The following contains language not suitable for young viewers… especially if they’re Baptist. Job 11:12 says, “A stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!” Proverbs 12:1 says, “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.” Isaiah 19:11 says, “The princes of Zoan …
Would you stand at someone’s window and watch them have sex? Whoa, pretty shocking question, right? That probably took you by surprise. Yet it didn’t bother you last night when you were watching Game of Thrones, or anything else with a gratuitous sexual scene. Watching that is the same as if you were to …
In Genesis 1:26-27, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over” all the earth. “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” What does it mean to be made in …
“Don’t be so heavenly minded that you’re of no earthly good.” Have you ever heard that expression before? It is a lie from the pit of hell. More accurately, don’t be so earthly minded that you’re of no heavenly good. Jesus said to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all …
Is smoking marijuana a sin? Well, you used to be able to say “Yes, because it’s illegal,” and that would be that. But now that marijuana is legal medicinally and recreationally, is it still sin? Yes — 1 Corinthians 6:12, “All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.” …
Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” What does this mean, that we are surrounded by a great cloud of …