Consider that you, as an accountable person, have sold yourself into slavery to sin (John 8:31-34; Rom 6:16). It is impossible for you to gain the means to redeem yourself from this master. Look at what Peter wrote to Christians.
Seek, Set, Sever, and Serve
How do we resist temptation? Colossians 3:1-17 provides plain actions that can aid in our struggles. See if you can find what we should seek, set, and sever, and how we should serve to be holy.
Our God is in Heaven
Wealth, power, fame, and pleasure are abstract, fleeting pursuits. They are thoughtless, emotionless, and helpless. They only have what we give to them. Nonetheless, billions set these as their life’s focus.
It’s Going on the Refrigerator
When your son comes to you with a crayon drawing of the family, you don’t concern yourself with the disproportionate heads, cyclops eyes, or stick torsos. You see growth. You see love. You see your son. That’s what is going on the refrigerator.
Not the mistakes – the masterpiece.
Saved from What? How?
To be forgiven, our sins must be washed by the blood of Christ. But how? This is an abstract concept. Jesus’ blood was shed almost two thousand years ago. Since we can’t literally touch it to be cleansed, where do we see the figure for when it happens?
When Belief is Unbelief
When we live by faith, by definition we are believing. The faith we practice is our belief. One is a thing and the other is an action.
Well, If You Don’t Want to Know…
There are things you should do the uncomfortable work of asking.
Christians are Not Sinners
Are faithful Christians sinners?
The Way, The Truth, and The Life
Jesus made a clear, undeniable, and exclusive claim. “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”