Recently, we considered what makes a person “clean” or “unclean” in Mark 7:14-23. While these terms are not part of the everyday language that most of us traffic in, you have probably have heard of Jewish people refusing to eat things like… Read More
Why Not Women Elders?
Of all the qualifications for elders taught in scripture, the most controversial in our day is the requirement that they be men. Why is this so controversial? Because we live in an era when people both worship equality and misunderstand it…. Read More
Parenting Problems, Part 2
Last week we saw how David’s sin was a rejection of the relational framework that had bound the king to his God (see 2 Samuel 12:9). David had made a mockery of the Ten Commandments, the central tenets of the… Read More
A Warning We All Need
A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved. Proverbs 12:3 Charles Swindoll reminds of a warning we all need to heed: “I want to be quite direct with you. Secular… Read More
ChurchWorks: How You Function, Part 11
In segment one of this series we examined the marks of a God-owned Church. Since then we have been seeing how every Christian is gifted by the Holy Spirit to display the character and priorities of Jesus Christ in a… Read More