There is a key word and a key phrase that explain what Ecclesiastes is all about. The key word is translated “vanity” in the KJV. Recent study of the language indicates that the term is richer than that. It points to something vain (“empty”), it is true, but also carries with it the idea that …
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I have had the opportunity to hear much preaching over the last few years, some very good, some mediocre, most very bad. What is the problem with preaching? There is no one problem, of course; there are a number of problems to which I have been addressing myself in our Friday preaching blogs. But if …
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A request for info on borderline personality disorder, so-called, just came in. Let’s consider two things: What is personality? Personality is that which a human being develops as he uses his basic genetic traits to live in various more-or-less changeable ways at various times; ways which are more or less visible by how he thinks, …
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“I’ve about given up on that counselee!” He’s a believer, isn’t he? “Yeah. But he comes from a long line of loafers and no goods, and he’s inherited all their traits.” Aw, c’mon! “No, really. I’ve had it with him!” Let me read you a passage from 1 Peter 1:18,19 in the CCNT/P: . . . …
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Most savvy Christians know that the prohibition to judging in Matthew 7:1 has to do with wrong judging, and not with judging altogether. “I didn’t know that!” Sure. In John 7:24 Jesus commands us to judge a righteous judgment. And, here in Matthew 7, he explains that he is speaking about the one who does …
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