What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions?  Why don’t you get off to a good start this year and make some resolutions that you can keep?  Why don’t your read you bible this year, all the way through?  I use “The Daily Walk Bible.”  My wife uses “The One Year Bible.”  These bibles are divided…
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Are you comfortable in your Christian skin?

A lot of Christians are very comfortable in their faith, what I refer to as their “Christian skin.”  Maybe that’s okay.  Maybe they are where God wants them to be.  And, I am not here to judge them, and hopefully they don’t feel like I am.  A lot of people who profess to be Christians…
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Is faith without works dead?

Last night, I had a conversation with an extended family member about salvation. Romans teaches that we are saved by faith alone, not by works. I am well aware of this. However, what does it mean? How do you reconcile this with James, who teaches that faith without works is dead? And, how do you…
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Have we become desensitized to sin?

The bible says that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  His standards never change.  Sin is sin.  Unlike God, our standards have evolved.   There has always been sin but what was once unacceptable behavior in many instances in the past has now become acceptable.  In our recent past, we were so much more…
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Do Christians judge others?

I had an interesting conversation with a friend, which began with a discussion about the bible’s view on gender reassignment surgery. I was cautioned that we should not judge others because we do not know their circumstances. In this case, it was argued that gender identity may not be a matter of choice.  I believe…
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