Over the course of my experience, I have encountered a great number of opinions about songs – particularly hymns – and what constitutes good worship, good singing, acceptable songs, etc. Most of the time, the opinion stated as fact really boils down to taste and preference. For example, I have heard people say that sad […]
There are concepts about God that we readily believe and trust in, but we still don’t fully comprehend. For example, the Bible calls Him omnipotent (Revelation 19:6), which means He has all power. We believe it, but our minds cannot fathom having all power. Likewise, the Bible calls Him immutable or unchanging (Malachi 3:6, Hebrews […]
In theological circles, it has long been debated what the purpose, place, effect, etc. of the gospel is. This has translated down through the ages as either too much or too little emphasis for the gospel in Christian circles and denominational churches. Scripturally, the gospel is fairly easy to define. Using the parallel passages of […]
Life’s circumstances can skew our thinking, and our reactions to the things happening around us sometimes cause us to think things must be a certain way for things to happen. Naturally speaking, there are things that don’t go together, but the Lord in His kind providence can bring the supernatural out of a naturally impossible […]
One of the surest ways to either gender success or fall prey to failure comes down to the nature of priorities in our lives. Successful people in different fields understand where priorities should fall, while perpetually failing people blame their lack of priorities on other people for their own problems. In Ruth 3:18, we read […]
Truly, we live in times where promises are broken, truces aren’t kept, and someone’s word is not nearly set by like it once was and still should be. The Bible did tell us that this circumstance was coming (II Timothy 3), but one of the side effects and products of this culture is that people […]
When it comes to making decisions at the crossroads of our lives, we sometimes have a complicated rubric that we employ to decide what “should” be done, “could” be done, “may” be done, and so forth. As the household of faith, we certainly should have the highest strain and filter with what the word of […]
Today’s culture sadly either wants to ignore consequences or claim that they don’t exist. Two of the great lies that the devil promulgated throughout the general populace are: 1. What I do only affects me, and 2. It isn’t SO bad. When it comes to right and wrong, people sadly see a lot of gray […]
Laying a Foundation One of the elements of life is that certain things cannot build without something in place first. In academia, these are courses called pre-requisites that must be taken before the advanced courses can be pursued. In a professional working career, one must understand the work on the ground before supervising the work […]
Beloved, What Highlights the Church? When people ask questions like, “What is the church?” “What does the church look like?” “How do we know if something is the church?”, there are a number of ways that one could answer those queries. Elder Hassell gives a list of identifying marks in his history, and they are […]