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In the past year I have read a number of books by authors who have deeper wisdom and clearer understanding of Scripture than anything I’ve previously read. Some of these are David Platt (Radical), Andrew Farley (The Naked Gospel), Frank Viola (many books), and most recently a free download from Amazon.com by a man I [...]

It was an inspired train of thought which became the four-part blog on this website entitled, “The Deception of Victory Over Sin.” Then I found an article which compared forsaking sin to living in a house with two floors, and I quoted it in the blog entitled, “Life On the Second Floor.”
Then I went to [...]

After I wrote the four-part blog entitled, “The Deception of Victory Over Sin,” I read a short message by Steve Gallagher, who is the president and founder of Pure Life Ministries. He shared an illustration that so clearly describes and summarizes all that I was writing in my blog, that I just can’t resist sharing [...]

“And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign Lord, then the nations will know that I am the Lord…Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give [...]

If a Scripture verse begins with the word “therefore,” it should be a clue that what it says is the completion of a previous statement. But we Christians have this habit of starting to read the Bible in the middle of a thought, which has led so many to disastrous misunderstandings of what the Lord [...]

“So what is the way to have victory over sin and live a life bearing all kinds of rich fruit?”
I’m going to continue in Colossians from the last verse of Chapter 2 right into Chapter 3. Remember that verses, paragraphs, and chapters were placed in the Bible much later than when the books were written, [...]

It’s amazing that we can say we believe and follow the Word of God when we really don’t. I know some scriptures seem open to differing interpretations. But what about the things we believe and teach that are totally contrary to what the Lord and the apostles taught? One example: the Bible teaches us not [...]

I was thinking about each of my six children. Of course I love each one, but it’s not the same love. The same intensity, yet each one has a unique place of love in my heart. Just as each child is distinctly unique, so can I distinguish a distinctly unique love in me for each [...]