Deu 13:6-10 "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other...
Continue ReadingWhy is Our Default Tendency to Focus on “Fixing” the Evil Person Rather than Helping His Victim?Light for Dark Times Blog
Beware the Typical Distortion of the Biblical Doctrine of Accountability
Heb 4:13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Heb 13:17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping...
Continue ReadingBeware the Typical Distortion of the Biblical Doctrine of AccountabilityWe do Not Really Understand What it Means to “Bear One Another’s Burdens”
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. This is a verse of Scripture that is frequently quoted but almost never truly understood. The typical dealings of a local church with a victim of evil...
Continue ReadingWe do Not Really Understand What it Means to “Bear One Another’s Burdens”Reject the “Politician” Pastor
Job 32:21 I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. Psa 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with...
Continue ReadingReject the “Politician” PastorJust STOP Saying “We Are All Sinners” – STOP IT!!
1Co 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, (10) nor thieves, nor the greedy,...
Continue ReadingJust STOP Saying “We Are All Sinners” – STOP IT!!A Few More Thoughts on “The Happy Church”
I recently posted the article Beware the Happy Church and add some additional thoughts this morning. Consider again the following: 1Co 11:20-30 When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. (21) For in eating, each...
Continue ReadingA Few More Thoughts on “The Happy Church”Beware the “Happy” Church
1Co 11:28-30 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. (29) For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. (30) That is why...
Continue ReadingBeware the “Happy” ChurchSpotting the Wicked by Watching for their Unguarded Moments
1Ti 5:24 The sins of some people are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later. If you are a Star Trek fan, you know that the Klingons have a device on their ships called...
Continue ReadingSpotting the Wicked by Watching for their Unguarded MomentsWe Must Understand What Reviling is and What the Reviler Looks Like
Luk 6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 1Co 5:11 But now I am writing to you not...
Continue ReadingWe Must Understand What Reviling is and What the Reviler Looks LikeShame, Inferiority Thinking, and Victims
1Co 12:20-25 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. (21) The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." (22)...
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