I have heard non Christians banding about the phrase ‘special seat reserved in hell’ for someone they are unhappy with. It reminds me of Dante’s Inferno and places of deeper Hell that he described. The Bible says in Romans: 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[a] says the Lord. At base, God does not deny the human need for retribution. He simply refers to …
Main thing is certainly about the Cross and its centrality to all our hope. However, it is also about clarifying what to fight about. Some things God said clearly, and we can talk about them with authority here. Some things God did not say clearly. We should not presume that he could not and then help him. If God was unclear, he meant to be unclear. So, we can speak with clarity on the Cross and how we are saved, …
If Jesus came to save sinners, then why are we all pretending we are holy? The image shows the proud Pharisee and the lowly tax collector before God. Church and fellowship was not meant to be a place where we put on a show. It should be a place where we are safe and can be real about our doubts and failures. Real families can be that way, and we are brothers and sisters. Fellowship needs to be a place …
I like the topic of Who we are? and Who We Can Be? I got the following quote some time back from the C.S. Lewis Daily Twitter feed, and it moved me so time to talk on it. “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”-C.S. Lewis I would also add I found out how bad I was when I ran from God 1991-1993, Being good is infinitely hard when we see …
Church history spans nearly 2000 years since Pentecost. How much of that has been evangelical? Where do we evangelicals come from? Let me first define what is an evangelical. We evangelicals are people: Who say each true Christian has one day where they become a saved Christian. We lead people to say the sinner’s prayer to become a Christian. Also, we believe the Holy Spirit enters a person at this point of decision. We believe in the Bible and downplay …
