Tag: Lord’s Supper
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Sanctification Is Knowing God’s In a Good Mood with You
Many Christians think sanctification means becoming less disappointing to God. That’s why self-help books are quite popular with lots of Christians. And why many Christian books are quite similar to self-help books. Because if you view sanctification as essentially moral improvement, it is essentially “self-help.” Many of these same Christians rightly affirm that sanctification is…
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How Can I Understand the Bible?
You can read the Bible cover to cover, repeatedly, in multiple translations… and still not understand it. At the end of Luke’s Gospel, some of the disciples who’d been with Jesus for years, heard his teachings, even seen his miracles, still did not understand. Even after Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to them,…
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When Love Must Refuse Communion
Sincere Christians, who genuinely love Jesus and one another, but sincerely believe God is saying different things when they read the Bible should not take the Lord’s Supper with one another. Perhaps, reading that sentence, you want to respond with one of these very common replies: The heart of the matter is this: What does…
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Spoken, Not Seen: 6-Day Creation
My atheist friends often present Genesis 1 as the ultimate proof text that God doesn’t exist. It goes like this: 1) The Bible says God created the universe in 6 days, 6,000 years ago.2) We clearly observe with our eyes that the universe appears much older than this.3) Therefore the Bible must be wrong, and…