Jul 6, 2016
But the Bible says “to hate” . . . What do we “hate?” The ideas behind “love the sinner, hate the sin” are actually scriptural, just a little misconstrued. In yesterday’s devotion we explored where Jesus called out the religious leaders for their condemning nature....
Jul 5, 2016
“Love the sinner, hate the sin” is one of the Christian clichés that we think are found in Scripture but actually, the statement as a whole, is not. There are “like” thoughts/statements in Scripture that we will explore this week that lend us to believe “Love the...
Jul 1, 2016
Henri Nouwen writes, “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender...
Jun 30, 2016
The myths that we are exploring during the message series “Finding Faith” exist for a reason. People did not conjur them up out of the blue – they originated with scripture passages that either have been misconstrued over the centuries or imaginary texts that are...
Jun 29, 2016
Sometimes when we think, “everything happens for a reason,” we think that because we view God as a vengeful God. We think bad things happen to us as a result of our being “bad” or our “sin.” That comes from an Old Testament understanding of God as a vengeful God. Yet...
Jun 28, 2016
It is difficult to accept the fact that sometimes – we just suffer. The largest attended Bible Study during my seven year tenure at Williamson’s Chapel was the one entitled, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” The masses attended that study more than any other...
