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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness. – Blaise Pascal Most American Christians have an unhealthy level of self-esteem – it is much too high. The average American [...] This entry is a blatant ripoff an homage to one of the best Christian websites on teh Intarwebz:
On The Offense of the Cross My dear Brethren, do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Hide not the offense of the cross, lest you make it of none effect. The angles and corners [...] A few months ago, on a Wednesday, a storm blew down a tree in my yard and broke my cable television and internet line. My wife called the company and they promised to be there the next day to fix it. The next day it wasn’t fixed so I called the company myself. They said they [...] If you’re on twitter, here’s an interesting person to follow. http://twitter.com/biblesummary Basically, the author, Chris Juby, plans to post a ‘twitterized’ summary of each chapter in the bible, consecutively, every day. She started with Genesis 1 about two weeks ago and is on course to post a summary of Revelation 22 on November 9, 2013. [...] The word ‘but’ changes whatever comes right before it. A ‘but’ is not always pleasant, like when somebody says to you, “I think you have a good idea, but…” It doesn’t matter what comes after a but like that, it isn’t going to be good. But a ‘but’ is beautiful when it changes a bad beginning [...] In a recent bible study I attended, the leader said that God’s first covenant with mankind was with Abraham in which God promised that He would give Abraham innumerable descendents and set aside a land for them. This covenant is found in Genesis 15:5-18. While this is a very important covenant, and was one of [...] Welcome to our bible study. Today we will be covering Paul’s letters; all of them. We might even throw in Hebrews if we have time. Open your bibles to Romans 1:1 and follow along as I read, “Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, set apart for the gospel of God,” Well that’s all the time we [...] “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 One of the best ways to begin to properly interpret an individual verse of scripture is to look at the action verbs. These verbs almost always [...] 2 Timothy 2:24-26 – 24 The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and [...] |
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