(The above title is from R. Alan Cole, Tyndale New Testament Commentary on Mark) Imagine a man living on the 10th floor of an apartment building. After a long day at work he wants to just chill. There is a nice breeze that day, so he opens the window slightly. A few minutes go by while sitting in his favorite chair. He…
An Evangelical Free Church in Cary, NC
An Evangelical Free Church in Cary, NC
The Human Heart
Life Lesson: “People are fascinating, which is a tremendous gift. Choose carefully the people after whom you model your life.” 1 Corinthians 2:11 ESV For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Proverbs 20:5 ESV The purpose in a man’s…
The addictive pursuit of happiness and self-expression begins as an enjoyable journey, but it leaves a trail of tears. In the fall of 2022, news broke of an ongoing workplace affair between ABC co-anchors T. J. Holmes and Amy Robach. After several weeks of deciding how to handle the crisis, ABC fired both Holmes and Robach. Each had earlier divorced their respective…
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right & Wrong are; just as there would be no sense in saying that a footballer had committed a foul unless there was some agreement about…
In our postmodern context, the self-realization of the individual, or autonomous, individual expressivism-viewed as an evolutionary process-has become humanity’s God. Here are several basic ways in which humanity, that is, “the modern self”, has defied God and continues to rebel against the truth of being made in God’s image:
I enjoy reading Rabbi Mark Gellman’s The God Squad column in the weekly paper. On the topic of, “Loving An Enemy…”, Rabbi Mark says that it is beyond his comprehension: “If you do not hate someone who has savaged your loved ones, who would you hate? Moreover, Jesus’ teaching is not just a command to forgive an enemy who has come to…
Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.“ If the devil were in our churches, homes, society, or culture, he would be pretty obvious, wouldn’t he? Would he be this obvious? Satan is the father of lies and a murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). Yet the “Satan” bumper sticker…