I’ve often thought that “know-it-alls” ruin life for everyone else. While reading 1 Corinthians 8, I was reminded of that again.
‘2Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much. 3But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.’
1 Corinthians 8:2-3
If you know everything, you can’t learn anything.
I don’t know everything, but I love a God who knows everything about me, and still loves me. How blessed am I?
Doodle was my buddy’s grandpa. Doodle was a small fella, weighing about 120 pounds (with rocks in his pocket). He had a fun manner, loved to laugh, and was always ready to fish and hunt. He wore a tan bucket hat, and he had extremely small teeth. His family said his adult teeth never came…
Yesterday, my youngest and I were in the truck running errands, and he brought up confession. He said a Sunday School teacher told him that Catholics believe the priest forgives people’s sins. I told him that wasn’t correct, that Catholics believe only God forgives sins. The Catholic Catechism states that only God forgives sins (CCC…
The brutality of Christ’s crucifixion in John 19 is agonizing. Though he was innocent, soldiers flogged him with a lead-tipped whip and crowned him with thorns while the crowd screamed, ‘Crucify him!’ After being forced to carry His own cross, He was nailed to the wood and His side was pierced by a spear. I…
I think we often complicate the Gospel. Romans 10:4 and 9-10 offer a beautiful, striking simplicity. Paul wrote to early Christians who were exhausted by trying to “earn” their way to God. He gave them a lifeline: Christ fulfills the Law. Because Jesus finished the work, God now makes us right with Him the moment…
We are on day 86 in reading the Bible through in a year, and today’s reading is John 18. Jesus finds himself in an olive grove, surrounded by a mob of Roman soldiers and Temple guards, with blazing torches and weapons. Jesus steps forward to meet them and asks, Who are you looking for? The…
In Acts 16, we learn that Timothy’s mom was a Jewish believer and his dad was a Greek. Timothy is circumcised before he goes with Paul. I wondered about that, since the previous chapter was pretty clear on those requirements. My study Bible and BibleRef state that Paul believed Timothy would play a major role…