For the next ten days, I’ll be reading Revelation, the last book in the New Testament. I’ll end this month with a view of what will happen when God says, “It’s a wrap” on our world, and those of us who belong to Him will begin the next stage of eternal life in a new …
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Red Flags For False Teachers
For the last few days, reading straight through the New Testament has led us to the topic of holding firm to our faith and guarding the simplicity and purity of the gospel against false teaching. We could almost see these five letters (1 & 2 Peter, 1, 2, & 3 John) as an overview, followed …
Guarding The Gospel
I’m in the middle of reading a very hard book, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. I heard of this book years ago and always meant to explore it, but never took the time. It’s a challenge. It was originally published in 1563 and recounts the lives of persecuted believers from the time of the early church …
God Is Love AND Light
God is love. God is light. As I read back through 1 John again this morning, I realize there’s no way to fully cover the depth of what these two little statements mean in a couple of short blog posts. What I do want to make clear is that we can’t separate the two. We …
Can A Christian Hate?
God is love. God is light. As I read through 1 John, these are the two statements that keep coming back to me. They’re such simple concepts: love and light. John is defining what it means to be a child. If a proper understanding of God is to see Him through the lens of love …
The Way Of The Word 