How Do You Read Your Bible?

Do you read the Bible hoping to learn something to share with someone? Do you read your Bible in order to learn what you must do? Do you read your Bible in order to maintain some sense of "Holiness"? I used the read Bible the last way. Just read my...

Itching Ears — What's Paul Talking About?

1I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3For the time...

"Judge Not" Has Become "Judge Righteous Judgment"

1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine...

Conscience Seared with a Hot Iron of Sin

Much has been made of the notion that people lose a sense of sin as they grow older, thus making them more susceptible to error, to falling into sin, and thus to ending up in perdition. One religious missal interpreted "conscience seared with a hot iron" to...