Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart! Psalm 36:10 I love reading books and articles by people I know personally. While any good book is worth reading, the experience is more enjoyable when I know the author because I can see little bits of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
Do You Know the Author?
Posted in Bible Study, Christianity, tagged Allan Moseley, Bible, Bible Study, Danny Akin, David Jones, Greg Wilkey, Oprah Book Club on June 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How God Sees Us
Posted in Christianity, tagged Bible, Christianity, John Locke, Life, Philosophy, Thomas a Kempis on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance. This is the greatest and most useful lesson we can learn: to know ourselves for what we truly are, to admit freely our [...]
God and Gay Marriage
Posted in Christianity, tagged Bible, Gay marriage, God, homosexuality, Lisa Miller, Newsweek, sex on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Conservative Evangelicals across the blogosphere have posted their responses to this week’s cover story from Newsweek. Their treatment of the article theologically and politically will far outweigh any attempt of mine to do the same. What I would like to respond to is Ms. Miller’s opening statements concerning the Bible’s treatment of marriage. Let’s try [...]
The Bible is not about you.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bible, Christianity, felt-needs, God, Jesus, self-help, theology, typology on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dr. Akin gave this to us this morning in class in a discussion of typology in the Old Testament. His point was to show that while so much of what goes on in the church today is people-centered, self-help, feelings-healing, needs-meeting fluff, the Bible is not really about us, it’s all about Jesus. When we [...]
Christians and Culture
Posted in Christianity, tagged Bible, Christian life, culture, God, Scripture on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently was assigned an essay in which I was to answer the question, “How ought Christians react to the shifting moral values of culture?” Here’s my answer… I have read the assigned book, Reforming the Morality of Usury, in its entirety. Much like the time of the Reformers, today’s culture is in the midst [...]
