A seminary classmate of mine, Scott Lothery, now serves at Living Faith Community Church (EFC) on Long Island. He has written a wonderful book called ALWAYS GOOD NEWS. Here is a snippet from the Amazon page: “We live in a bad news world filled with relentlessly disturbing headlines – war and crime, poverty and pandemics,…
The context in Corinth In 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1, Paul calls Christians to move away from idolatry and pursue holiness. /How do we recognize and break free from idols? One command is stated in 3 different forms: One method of applying this passage is for a Christian to identify all the harmful non-Christian influences in his…
The difficult balance is to speak and talk in such a way that urges the sinning believer to repent, while not completely ignoring him or expressing total disapproval toward his person.
Ours is an age of cynicism, where the idea of universal truth is questioned and often rejected in all areas of life, whether in social and cultural issues or in personal matters. People today talk of “my truth” or “your truth” or “a truth”, but reject the notion of “the truth”; that is, absolute truth which is definite and binding on all…