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Mother’s Day and the Infertile by Russell Moore

It is good and right to honor mothers. The Bible calls us to do so. Jesus does so with his own mother. We must recognize though that many infertile women find this day almost unbearable.

Don’t be so dramatic; your mom isn’t really going to kill you. Is she?

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Be Careful Offering Criticism to Your Pastor by Aaron Armstrong

Tell him what you appreciated about the message, what God is teaching you through it and, if there’s something that is bothering you, ask about it in an open-ended way.

The Double-Reach of Self-Righteousness by Tullian Tchividjian

Listen: self-righteousness is no respecter of persons. It reaches to the religious and the irreligious; the “buttoned down” and the “untucked”; the plastic, “boardroom”, CEO Christians and the pious, coffee-house, artsy Christians.

Everyone Discriminates by Erik Raymond

Go ahead and say actions and attitudes are wrong. Say that you don’t like them and that there should be consequences. Say and do something about it, don’t just hide behind an emotionally charged word like discrimination.

The Story of Ian & Larissa… From John Piper and Desiring God (HT: Chris Upson)

I tremble with the glad responsibility of introducing you to Ian & Larissa Murphy in this video. Tremble, because it is their story and so personal. So delicate. So easily abused. So unfinished. Glad, because Christ is exalted over all things.

Bigotry on the Ballot? No, Dishonesty in the Editorial by Albert Mohler

The real question is whether discrimination is right or wrong, justified or without justification. Calling any law “obvious discrimination” is not yet an argument. What the editors mean, we can presume, is that the proper line of discrimination should be drawn elsewhere, but this is not what the editorial states. In order to make this argument, the editors would have to summon the courage to define how the law should properly discriminate in defining marriage. No such courage is apparent.

Why do we use the word “Trinity”? by Matt Crawford

The term itself (Trinitas) is a combination of two Latin words, unitas, which means “unity,” and trias, which means “three.” These two parts capture well the two basic biblical principles that the word “Trinity” is meant to convey: the oneness of God, and the threeness of God.

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]]> http://tando.org/archives/1968/feed 0 Paper-thin Bible Study http://tando.org/archives/601 http://tando.org/archives/601#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:05:14 +0000 Dave Miller http://tando.org/?p=601 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 [...]]]> 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 have for Romans. There’s really not much more to it, a lot of theology and rules and things. What we have learned so far is that Paul is a servant of Jesus. That will really help us in part two of our lesson. If you must go deeper, you can read Romans 8:28 which says that God gives us everything we want. Be sure you don’t read any further into chapter 1 and stay away from chapter 9.

Let’s start into Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. Look at 1 Corinthians 1:2, “To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus.” Wow that’s a big word. What does sanctified mean? I guess since it is written to the church it means that everyone in the church is sanctified. That’s good news to all of us and that about does it for Corinthians. Everyone in the church at Corinth was sanctified, that’s all you really need to remember. Be sure to avoid chapters five, six, eleven and twelve if you insist on reading more.

Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians are all pretty much the same book. Paul talks about living a good life. Ephesians 5:1 really sums up everything in these four books. ” Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;” That’s what we all are, children of God.

The two books of Thessalonians are next in our study. Let’s start with 1 Thessalonians 1:6, “You also became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation with the joy of the Holy Spirit.” Well, here we have a mention of the Holy Spirit which, along with the previous verses about God and Jesus make up the Trinity. That pretty much covers all we need to know about God. Let’s move on.

Timothy and Titus were both ministers that Paul was writing to and since none of you are ministers, there’s really not much point in going into them. If any of you are thinking of going into the ministry, they’ll probably make you read them in seminary.

Philemon is the shortest of Paul’s letters and it will take us very little time to study it.

Thank you for attending Bible Study today. It looks like we’re out of time so we’ll save Hebrews for another day.

Obviously this is an exaggeration, but have you ever attended a bible study like this? The leader of such a study is plowing a furrow ten miles long and a tenth of an inch deep.  It is useless for planting anything. A good teacher could spend an hour talking about 2 Corinthians 5:21 alone. Covering entire chapters of the bible in a matter of minutes is an insult to the intelligence of the believers attending and does no justice to the Word of God.

How is God glorified with such paper-thin bible study?

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