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If everybody truly believes the misleading saying, “Love the sinner, hate the sin,” why is there so much hating of sinners going around? It seems to be popular among some these days to divide sinners into two categories, those who are eligible to worship God and fellowship with us, and those who aren’t....
About fifteen years ago, in response to several requests, I decided to lead a study on the book of Revelation for my Wednesday night Pastor’s Bible Study. It’s a formidable task, as you might imagine. There is perhaps no other book in the Bible that confounds people more than the Apocalypse of John, as it...
One of the hallmarks of Western civilization and the Enlightenment worldview is individualism, the recognition that each individual is a person of value and worth and “has certain inalienable rights.” Individualism actually has its roots in Christianity; that God numbers the hairs on our heads, that he...
Waiting for the Lord, as Isaiah 40:31 tells us to do, is difficult because the Lord doesn’t seem to be in much of a hurry. Consider that the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for over 400 years before the Lord sent a deliverer (Moses), and that the conditions of the Exile lasted over 500 years before he...
Nobody—not children, not adults, nobody—likes to be told to wait. “Wait” means there is something you want, and you want it now, but you aren’t going to get it now. You never have to be told to wait for something you don’t want or need. “I’m going to question your integrity and impugn your...
In the gospel of John, Jesus is portrayed as the Lamb of God, a sacrifice offered up by God to deliver his people from slavery to sin. According to Hebrews, this was the last sacrifice needed, for this Lamb’s death purified and sanctified once and for all. “But when Christ had offered for all time a single...
Forgiveness and Repentance: Which Leads to Which?
Reading Scripture in One Sitting (or Sometimes It’s Best to Swallow an Elephant Whole
Individualism and the Curse of Isolation
Impatience and Idolatry
Waiting for the Lord Requires a Lot of Patience
The Last Lamb
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I am a lifelong student of the Bible, and have been a pastor for over twenty-five years. My desire through this blog is to help people see things in the intersection of Scripture and real life that they might have missed. The careless handling of the Bible is causing a lot of problems in our churches and our culture--and is literally turning people away from the church, and, sometimes, God. I hope to treat Scripture with the respect it deserves, and, even if you don't agree with what I say, give you some insight.
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