Does the teaching of Paul regarding being unequally yoked have application to marriage? Specifically: may a believer marry an unbeliever? May a Christian marry one who is not (i.e., a Jew, a Buddhist, an atheist, etc.)? Does God recognize such unions as legitimate marriages?
One thing I’ve noticed in working with churches around the country is that many Christians have an unbalanced view of God. In today’s “culture of tolerance,” many have assumed God is just as tolerant and unbothered by sinful behavior as is politically correct at the moment.
“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world” (Luke 2:1).
The following ten commandments were given to Moses by God. Moses returned to the Children of Israel and gave them the following commandments as listed in Exodus 20 of the Bible.
As Christians we hear many sermons, messages and preaching about salvation. “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:3-4).
Several men in the locker room of a private exercise club were talking when a cell phone laying on the be”nch rang. One man picked it up without hesitation, and the following conversation ensued:
Technically, the book of Jonah is anonymous, however Jewish tradition holds that the author is Jonah himself. In more recent years it has come to be believed that “the book is about Jonah rather than by him.”
I was raised in northwestern New Mexico, near the four-corners area on the Navajo Indian reservation. From the time I was about 4 or 5 years old until I graduated from high school, this vast area was my home.
Many today are bantering around the slogan “God said it, I believe it, and that settles it.”
Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
Luke 9:33 – As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters – one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.)
The name Judas comes from the Greek word Ioudas, which is simply the word employed for the Hebrew name Judah. We discover from Gen. 29:35 that it is derived from the verb meaning “to praise.”
There are times when I wake up in the middle of the night and ask myself, “What if I am wrong, what if there is no God? Is God real?”
“God is love” (1 John 4:8,16). “Love is from God” (1 John 4:7). “His love is perfected in us” (1 John 4:12). “Perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). “The one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. He has given us of His Spirit” (1 John 4:16,13).
The question found in the title above terrified me in my early Christian years. And I suspect many other Christians agonize over whether or not they can fall from grace. Sometimes I’d lie awake at night wondering if my recurring struggles with sin would keep me from heaven.