I feel the need to repeat some statements about sin. Even among believers, a common claim is that if something is ingrained or natural, it can’t be sin. But we live in corrupt flesh, in a corrupt world, being hounded by forces of evil. Put a free will into a package like that, and you [...]

A friend alerted me recently to the suicide death of a popular mega-church pastor named Thomas Young (see also this blog and a bio here). While we cannot know all that went on in the final moments of this man’s life, there are disturbing statements being made to try and make sense of it.
This man [...]

Last year I wrote about the approaching Thanksgiving holiday, and I think the events of the past year have brought some of the issues into sharper focus. Now more than ever, I would hope that people are waking up to what we are about to lose.
I thank God that I grew up in the [...]

Many in the churches today seem to look at this title and say “What’s that?” And then they consult every authority but the Bible for an answer, especially the New Testament.
But it isn’t complicated or hidden. If you know the NT at all, you could define sin as whatever gets between you and God. We [...]

Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts. — Psalm 12:2
A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin. — Prov. 26:28

Any regular readers here know that I have at times pulled the plug on a comment stream, and it isn’t always easy [...]

I’ve written much about the great aversion to doctrine prevalent among professing Christians today, but I think the heart of this problem is that, as a group, we have forgotten who God is. God, even among those who allegedly know better, has been reduced to the white light at the end of a tunnel, a [...]