#sabbathposts

Usually signs in front of churches have very simple messages like “Jesus is Lord” (“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven” Mt 7). But there is a church sign near us which has a refreshing level of biblical specificity; it says: “The peace of Christmas fills the hearts of those who follow…

If you really want to be obedient to God’s commandments – have you read them?There’s more than ten. There’s not 613 (could be vastly more or vastly less depending on how you count them, and frankly the 613 list was a stupid way to count them). What matters more than how you count them is that you read them, and obey.They are not just in the Greek Scriptures. They are not just in the writings of…

There is a temptation for people to confuse ‘nature’ (the wilderness) with nature music videos – which they watch wistfully on polished screens. If they actually set foot in the wilderness, there’s a likelihood they would set their foot in dung. Let’s say you take a thousand pictures of the wilderness, just looking any which way; then pick out all the nice shots: the flower, the sunset, the…

Wastefulness is to dishonour God: if there is anything you would sacrifice for God, it means nothing if you would sacrifice the same thing for nothing. “The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.” Pr 12 Unless something is precious to you, you can give nothing precious to God. It is a temptation to confuse greed and desire, and…

An appropriate subject entering this season. 🙂 Believers are sons of God by adoption, Adam and the angels are sons of God by direct creation, Christ is the only begotten Son of God: “his only begotten Son” (1J 4), the only Son that is begotten rather than created. Rather than being created, Christ created all things that ever were created:“All things were made by him; and without him was not…

“The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God” 2Thes 1 When people ask, “What about those who haven’t heard the Gospel?” they are misunderstanding the Gospel. “The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may…

“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, his prayer also shall be abomination.” Pr 28 It is interesting that this comes so near before a giving of the Gospel: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Pr 28 The prayer which is an abomination could be a praying of the sinner’s prayer; it could also be any psalm of…

{Edited from a conversation I had a while back about foul language (if you don’t mind reading some foul language).} On foul language specifically, in the past it was a category of “strong language”, anything shocking lumped into one category, simply as what would be impolite to say in front of women and children. This is one reason it is more associated with soldiers and sailors – people who…