Stop Calling Natural Disasters God’s Judgment
It happens every time there is a natural disaster. Some “godly” person says that this tragedy is God’s judgment on the sinful people. From the hurricane in New Orleans, the tsunami in Asia, a tornado in Minnesota, and the earthquake…
Falling from Favor (1)
You who seek to be justified by the Law are cutoff from Christ and have fallen out of (God’s) favor.
I personally prefer to ponder Paul’s conclusion to his argument in Galatians 5, verse 4 with the phrases reversed: You who seek…
Baptism and Romans 6:3-4 continued
Consider that this thought process rules out infant and children baptism. You must know what you are doing. Your parents getting you baptized is not the answer. This illustration was not given to say that we need to throw people…
Baptism and Romans 6:3-4
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the…
Baptism and Romans 6:2
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? (Romans 6:2; ESV)
The answer: NO WAY! Absolutely not! God’s grace is overflowing and super-abounding through the blood of Jesus. How can we who died to…
Baptism and Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? (6:1; ESV)
Understanding Paul’s rhetorical questions is important to properly understanding this section of Romans. The NIV translation seems to miss the picture that the…
Altogether Wrong
Arrogance is one of those gifts that keeps on giving, as I have mentioned here from time to time. We all are capable of thinking that we might know something more than we actually do. Occasionally, some of us think better of ourselves than we ought. Such things are…
More Gay Bishops
Episcopal Churches through the Los Angeles Diocese have once again proven that they possess less godly character than do Roman Catholics; and that they do not read or honor the Word of God at all. They have appointed another homosexual bishop - this tme a woman. This displays that…
Adam, A Type of Christ (Romans 5:14)
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. (Romans 5:14; ESV)
It seems to me a number of…
Be Thankful
Thanksgiving and Independence Day are my favorite holidays. They are completely American by design; and each asks us only to pause long enough to celebrate the best of things within our lives.
There is a religious significance to the founding of this…