1 John 3:4-10

This post was originally published in June 2014.–ed. The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor power plant released four hundred times the amount of radioactive material released in the bombing of Hiroshima. Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster landed in the neighboring nation of Belarus. I’ve …

Thispost was first published during January 2016. –ed. My early months as a Christian were a joyous feast of fellowship. There was nothing I loved more than to be with my new brothers and sisters in Christ. Every believer I knew seemed so sanctified and intimate with the Savior. I actually felt intimidated by lives …

This post was originally published in June 2014.–ed. There is colossal confusion about what it means to be a Christian. Through mass communication the culture receives conflicting messages about what defines authentic Christianity. Cults, charismatic speakers, and criminally convicted church leaders only muddle the confusion on a grand scale. What’s perhaps worse than confusing the …

Lying is not only sinful, it’s also self-perpetuating. Deception always begets more deception because the only way to sustain a falsehood is with more and more lies. That’s certainly the case with the popular lies we’ve been considering in this series. The postmodern lie thattruth is relativeis often defended and reinforced by another lie that …