Tag: Love

The anatomy of love

Sometimes, the Bible is difficult to understand because the language used in our translation, while correct, isn’t how we talk normally. Today, I will suggest a change of one word that, I believe, will help our understanding of what John is saying in our text. I want to exchange the word “for” for the word “because” in verses three and four.

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Love in the light

One can only walk in love if one walks in the light. Somehow, our culture has determined that truth and love are like oil and water; they don’t mix. Truth is seen as harsh and condemning, whereas love is soft and cuddly, and nonjudgmental. In this passage, John shows the fallacy of such reasoning.

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Love has a purpose. Know what it is?

Ask any Christian what holiness means, and you may get a range of answers. If you ask a conservative Presbyterian (like a PCA or Orthodox Presbyterian), you will get one answer. Ask a liberal or progressive Presbyterian, like Presbyterian USA, and you will get a quite different Presbyterian answer. Ask an Assembly of God (AoG) member, and you will probably get a quite different answer. Ask a Nazarene and you will probably get an answer much like the AoG Christian (because their roots come from the same holiness movement). If you ask a few Southern Baptists and you will get the full range of answers since the Southern Baptists aren’t quite as homogenous as the other denominations. So, that leaves us with a question with no singular answer.

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God’s word to “Gay Christians”

Have there been “gay Christians” in the history of the church? Or is this strictly a 21st-century thing? History shows us that homosexuality is not new (go all the way back to Sodom and Gomorrah and Leviticus 18 as evidence), and homosexual people have been coming to faith for a long time. So, I would say the issue of “gay Christianity” is not a new phenomenon. The question is, how does the Scripture deal with “gay Christianity”

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My story in brief…

Christ first came into my life at the age of 5 during a series of evangelistic meetings in our tiny country Quaker church house in Gate, Oklahoma. Since then it has been a process of “Stumbling forward by grace, through faith in Christ.” I experienced a significant personal revival at the age of 19 and have been much in love with the Lord ever since…five decades-plus.

My passion is to enjoy the Lord by encouraging others to make progress in their lives…living life successfully. I do that primarily through my disciple-making efforts and through my writing.

I spent about 20 years in public ministry and at the age of 40 decided that I had allowed my passion for ministry to impede my prior duty to my family, so I stepped aside. I found a new career as a financial advisor and now make my living serving my financial planning clients.

I now consider myself to be a bi-vocational minister of the gospel.

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