Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category

Far Too Easily Pleased

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

God gives us many good gifts, but it is easy to treasure gift above Giver. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the ...

Eyes Open by Trip Lee

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

[Note all the theology packed into verse 2...  ] Verse 1: Good evening brethren, let's go a special direction Look back, let's meet a young'n that was born in 87 His parents was so happy, rejoicing at they new blessing He breathes life, at the same time death without a question His parents gazed in his ...

This Is Love

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

How do you define "love"? First John 4:9 warns us NOT to try to define it based on ourselves: "not that we have loved God but that he loved us."  We do love God and love people, but the Bible says that we can't use our meager loving to define love.  ...

Glorified Forevermore

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Worth a slow, prayerful read (from here): As far as any eye could see There was no green. But every tree Was cinder black, and all the ground Was grey with ash. The only sound Was arid wind, like spirits' ghosts, Gasping for some living hosts In which to dwell, as in the days Of evil men, before ...

Exercises In Self-Centeredness

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy: Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop. Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems. Simple ...

Exercises In Self Justification

Friday, July 11th, 2008

At the core of the Gospel that so many of us affirm is justification by faith: we are justified externally not based on our own merits but based on Christ's merit - he was punished for our sin and he lived the righteous life we could never live. It's easy for ...

God Is More For You Than You Could Ever Be

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

One of the great things that happened at the Cross is our justification.  Without justification, we have a two-fold problem: we are sinful, and thus deserving of punishment, and we are unrighteous, and thus not deserving of eternal life.  Jesus solves both of these problems... listen to Paul explain it: For ...

Your Reward Will Be Great

Monday, June 30th, 2008

See the Christian Hedonistic appeal here? "If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the ...

The smoke from her goes up forever and ever

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Right now, we praise God for who He is and what He has done, saving us for eternal life with Him and saving us from eternal torment in Hell. In heaven, we will praise God for who He is and what He has done, having seen Him in His glory and ...

What does it mean to “Trade My Sorrows”?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

How many of you have sung the song Trading My Sorrows at church or youth group or camp or some conference somewhere? I was thinking about it today, and I believe this is one of the most confused, potentially damaging songs that Christians use in corporate worship. Why?  It's teaching bad theology.  ...