“Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.” (John 2:22, ESV) We move from considering Light/Darkness and Love/Hate of one another and between God and the world to the idea of the antichrist/Antichrist. John has previously given us the moral test…
Some churches have changed what Scripture clearly says so as not to offend. It’s strange how we all want those around us to be truthful, yet our culture has been so degraded that we’re careless with the truth. No one likes to be lied to, yet so many of us lie. When “situational ethics” first…
“The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us.” (John 1:2, ESV) This study is based on the belief that John, the brother of James (the sons of Zebedee, Matthew 10:2-4), is the author. He was…
Using the book: 1, 2, 3, John & Jude: Established by Truth … Marked by Love, by John MacArthur These letters are full of insights and direction along with warnings and encouragement . . . all based on two words: truth and love. These words remind us that God supplies all we need. That there…
“We need to pick out some new seats,” I told Lynne as we were leaving for church. Sunday was our first service in our new building, and we wanted to sit closer to the front of the church. For several years, I have been part of the security team, and we typically sat in the…
In the Genesis narrative, and in all of life, the foundational judgment that transforms us into judges is about God and ourselves. The path that leads us to our eating from the forbidden tree is deception. The serpent presented himself as letting Adam and Eve in on the divine secret. He was going to help…
Letter 1 Themes: Complacent and smug thinking; evaluation of truth, reality, and materialism; temptations when draw the patient away from universal (eternal) issues. Letter 2 Themes: Reality verses expectations; disappointment & disillusionment with church; genuine humility. Letter 3 Themes: Sanctification; relationships as a Christian; humility, judgmental attitudes; personal blind spots; danger of speech; the focus…
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away…
The following is an excerpt from the book, A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal by Roger Helle. The book includes stories about the effort of Vietnam military veterans who help the people of Vietnam after the war, and the efforts to support the underground church in a country that attempts to stop the…
From the book: “Resident Aliens – A Provocative Christian Assessment of Culture and Ministry for People Who Know That Something is Wrong.” By Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon. The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason (1685-1815), radically reoriented European and Western politics, philosophy, science, and religion. Thinkers of the time questioned traditional…
