James 2:8

You do well when you obey the Holy Writings which say, “You must love your neighbor as you love yourself”~ James 2:8 NLV Dear Guy who called my views on marriage naïve (AKA Tim), Contrary to ho……

Keep the royal law? Aren’t we under grace? Why would any New Testament book call us to keep the royal law? The phrase in James 2:8 is literally the law of the king. What king? (Hint: did the writer……

Church leaders declared that the enslavement of other persons is “contrary to the laws of God.” In 1785, the first Book of Discipline published by the Methodists included a piece of church legislation that any church member who buys or sells slaves is “immediately to be expelled” from membership, “unless they buy them on purpose to free them.” In 1800, the General Conference issued a “Pastoral Letter on Slavery.” It said “the whole spirit of the New Testament militates in the strongest manner against the practice of slavery.” That pastoral letter directed annual conferences to appeal to the legislatures in their respective states for the emancipation of slaves. And it called for “the universal extirpation of this crying sin.” So the documented history of Methodism makes clear that the founders of the church considered slavery to be “evil.” Forty-four years after the General Conference enacted church laws to demand that Methodists free their slaves or leave the church and to insist that Methodists take public antislavery steps, the denomination decided to divide. As the above article makes clear, John Wesley,”Denied that it was acceptable for anyone to be excused from judgment on the grounds that one was not personally a slave owner.” In our day, we might say, “Yes, she or he is a slave to sin, but what is that to me?” Worse, we call slavery, freedom.…

Love God with abandonment, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. That central principle is the very heart and soul of Scripture.…

Feeling restless? There may be a reason. In my student days we filled up the car during the week, since only a few rostered stations were open on Sunday. You could buy a newspaper at the Deli, but none of the big shops were open. And they closed for public...…

The Sermon on the Mount is actually the Law given by the king for life in his kingdom.…

The answers I was looking for didn’t come from Facebook (shocker) but they did come. It kind of hit me out of nowhere that genuine Christian love is more than just warmhearted sentimentality, or ev……

We are not supposed to live in lawlessness There have always been commandments to obey: Between the time – from Adam and Moses Between the time – from Moses to Jesus (the Jewish law) Be……

Christian new year’s resolutions and goals are important. We all need help with our habits. Atomic habits are good, but spiritual disciplines and habits are the most important. Without the gospel and the grace of God we can never reach our goals or break…

People can perform righteousness without having heard about the Bible content The common question about the inhabitants in the jungle “What about those who live in the jungle and who have nev……