I laughed last Sunday when Pastor Chris said, "Professional Weaker Brother", as I've met a few of them through the years. I thought at the time they were over-sensitive judges of everyone's behavior that was unlike their ownmuch like today's coddled millennials living in the safe space of the basement. I was reminded and did appreciate this series of sermons on wisdom i...

Intensely enjoying something does not necessarily make it into an idol. If the ability to experience a particular pleasure is God-given, and the way and time in which it is enjoyed is God-approved, it is safe to say that a Christian's enjoyment of it is God-ordained. Unfortunately, through two-thousand years of church history there have always been a number of accusing vo...

Yesterday we finished our series "Being a Wise Church: 7 Principles to Consider". But there is one lingering question that was not addressed clearly: How do I know when something that I enjoy and was once thankful to God for becomes an idol? How do I know when something that can be done out of worship TO God now becomes the object of my worship INSTEAD of God? For examp...

Have you ever had a season in your life in which it's become apparent that God is tugging at one, specific area of your heart?Well, I'm in one of those seasons. The Book of 1 Corinthians has proven to be one of the most influential books of the bible in my walk with Christ. At the start of this series, I remember first hearing the title "Church Gone Wild", and letting o...

The "spirit of the law" spoken of in the New Testament is revealed in a believer through the Holy Spirit, not through self-indulgence or self-righteousness, not, in fact, through "self"-anything but through God. Knowledge of the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law is at the very core of the new life granted to the children of God. It is part of the free...