How the World Lies About Love

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” John 14:15 Political discourse is full of the word love but love would appear to be defined as mere emotion.  In the worst of it, we can see it’s only a sexual manifestation of some sort.  This...

Godly Pleasure

“Have you found honey? Eat only what you need, that you not have it in excess and vomit it.” Proverbs 25:16 Christians often make a terrible mistake in organizing their life. What happens is that they don’t “think on these things”...

How Sexual Sin Destroys Us

“You shall not commit adultery…” Romans 13:9 The prohibition against adultery carries with it the commandment that sexual intercourse, as God has ordained it, is to be between a man and a woman in marriage.  That’s it. Naturally, we bristle at...

Insults, Slander & Murder

Proverbs 15:4“A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.” In the book of Proverbs there’s a startling connection, a chain of sin, that’s easy to miss. In the New Testament’s book of wisdom, James, we’re taught that the tongue is a...

What Love Is…And Isn’t

Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself The central and guiding principle of Christian ethics is love.  The world speaks of love quite a bit these days.  Nevertheless, they’re never eager to define what they mean when they say it and it’s rather clear,...