This week our young people are going to camp at Lake Texoma. Obviously, we will be praying for them and the adults leading and serving them. But Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 gives us some great things to ask God for.
Speaking the Truth in Love
Speaking the Truth in Love
Sermons by David Wright (Page 7)
The Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews and ruthlessly mistreated them. After God rescued his people, he told them never to have any dealings with their former oppressors (Deut. 17:16). Paul makes a strikingly similar point in his first letter to the Corinthians.
Solomon makes an important observation in Proverbs 14:4. No ox means a clean feeding trough and stall – but also no crop. What’s the point?
What is my life about? What am I really after? Do I even know? The life mission of Paul is a great model for us to imitate (1 Cor. 9:19-23).
In worship we are tempted to think that the audience is assembled in the pews. But this isn’t so. The truth of the matter changes everything.
In charismatic churches worshipers speak gibberish and claim to be imitating the Christians of the first century. But how does the Bible define “tongue”?
“Unconditional election” is a popular teaching of Calvinists. The idea is that in eternity past God predestined certain individuals for salvation. And absolutely nothing we do or don’t do has anything to do with His choice. Does the Bible teach this?
Jesus is known for saying things that seem all wrong at first glance. The concluding line of the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector is an important example.
At graduation ceremonies the commencement speaker almost always says, “Be true to yourself” or “You be you.” This advice sounds innocent, but is it?
The devil is a murderer, and his murder weapon is deceit (John 8:44). Have we listened to the lies the serpent told Eve?