Category: Obedience

Brethren with Too Many Relatives

No, I am not talking about a population explosion. I am not even talking about long lost cousins that surface when someone starts a rumor that we have come into some money. I am talking about relatives as opposed to…

A Christian and God’s Grace

I suspect that most readers of this blog have heard the age-old question: “How many legs does a dog have?” The obvious answer is “four” – unless one calls the tail a leg – then the answer would be five…

In Taking Away the Law, Did Jesus Take Away All Law?

We are hearing a lot lately about how we, living under the dispensation of Christ, are under grace and not under law. The implication being that Jesus died to free us from law – period – not merely the Mosaic…

“Light – Darkness”

“14 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and inequity? Or what communion hath light with darkness?” II Cor. 6:14. This text, and context, is describing things that are opposites; thus, the idea of light…

A New Kind of Self-abasement

In the second chapter of Colossians, the Apostle Paul twice refers to those who had a “voluntary” (KJV) or a “false” (NKJV) humility. The NASV and ESV, respectively, translate it “self-abasement” and “asceticism.” He, most likely, was referring to the…