Yet, God still found her faithful.
In my previous post, Jealous?, Heather from 1 Free Heart made an off-handed comment about Rahab receiving good for her lie. Heather’s comment was more to do with the command “thou shall not lie”… or as she corrects “thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” (by the way, [...]
Throughout Scripture we are told to stay away from jealousy.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. - James 3:16
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like [...]
In my last post, The Journey, I linked to a post by Wayne Jacobsen over at Lifestream.org. Jacobsen is not a unfamiliar name to me. A few years ago Jacobsen partnered with Dave Coleman to write So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore.
This book is a story of the fictitious character Jake Colsen. [...]
Currently there are a lot of Christians that are on The Journey. I call it the journey because I know of no other name to call it. It seems to be a widespread, yet small, movement of Christians shedding the snake skin of religion and walking in their shameful nakedness toward a closer relationship with [...]
As I was studying the Ten Commandments (impress your friends by referring to them as the Decalogue) I realized something… I have no idea which commandments are the ten commandments. I actually knew this a long time ago, but it hit me like a ton of bricks just recently.
Here are the ten commandments (From Exodus [...]
Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed writes a blog entitled, Fasting: From What? where he asks the question:
What happens when we shift the word fast from “denying our body food” to “denying ourselves of our pleasures”?
He makes some very interesting observations. Are we misusing the word “fast” today?
Marty Duren at SBC Outpost has written An Open Letter to the Board of Trustees, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary asking them to consider the former of two possible question:
The first question is, ‘Shall we replace the President?’ If the answer to that question is affirmative, then remove the President and form a committee to replace [...]
This is the last Kingdom of Heaven (KoH) parable in Matthew…
“For it is [the KoH] just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; [...]
Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed offers some interesting commentary concerning the equality of Man and Woman from creation for “ministry.” In his post called Women in Ministry: Made for Mutuality he writes seven points of mutuality, the sixth is:
Sixth, many contend that the “curse” of Genesis 3 indicates that the woman is submit to her [...]
This is kind of a dual post. Feel free to respond to which ever part of the post you want, even both (or none, I guess).
Last Thursday I read this out of Richard Ramesh’s Preparing Expository Sermons:
I cannot emphasize enough the role that a strong main introduction has to play in the effectiveness of the [...]