Pressing Out Blood
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes I don’t realize how serious my sins are, and there’s probably a reason for that.
Little Children and Sin—A Knowledge of Good and Evil
Reading Time: 3 minutes Are little kids born sinful?
The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s always BNSF.
Spiritual Math: The Sin Wave + Confession: The Most Difficult Act in the World
Reading Time: 6 minutes A sin wave has ups and downs, but it has no actual growth over time.
Is this your life?
Sinception: The Ineffable Horror of Becoming Lost in Your Lies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inception was nifty movie in a way. The protagonists infiltrated people’s dreams and manipulated them, effectively making them a lie within a lie…within a lie. Each level of “lie” you went deeper, the greater the chance that you’d never find your way back to reality. The same is true of sin. When we try to hide or keep a sin, we tend to pile on additional lies, building a foundation…
Bridges to Burn
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes when Christians don’t have inner peace (*raises hand*), it’s because they’re living two lives: talking about Jesus during the day, and getting smashed at night. Assembling on Sunday, and stealing on Monday. The ultimate problem is that they’re clinging to the deeds of the flesh from their pre-Christian days, and unwilling to leave it all behind. Sometimes burning bridges behind us is entirely profitable. When Elijah found Elisha and…
Making up Laws and Adding to the Word (My friend Wendy!)
Reading Time: 2 minutes A bit ago, my friend Wendy Nichols made a post about how our mutual, Christian heritage sometimes labels other Christians as “not Christian” based on whether or not they sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (Eph 5, Col 3) with, say, someone also playing the piano. Of note, it can be demonstrated that “psalms,” and to a degree hymns, were often accompanied, but not necessarily 100% of the time. The…
The Stick of Righteousness
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes people feel that it’s ok to be harsh toward others. A common line you might have heard or said is, “The truth hurts, deal with it.” In the same way, we can sometimes be very rough with a person who has some sin in his/her life. “Don’t you know that you…” and the lecture begins. I’ve come to realize that people are pretty smart. Often they know in their…