The Biblical Roots of the Seven Deadly Sins

The Biblical Roots of the Seven Deadly Sins The concept of the Seven Deadly Sins has become deeply ingrained in culture and literature over the centuries, but where did this list of vices originate? Go to Source Author: Jono Elderton

What it means to really love…

What it means to really love 1 Corinthians 13:4 Some of the greatest insights on what it means to love someone come from the pen of the apostle Paul: \’No matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I\’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than…

BURDEN-BEARING

\”Bear ye one another\’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.\” — Gal 6:2. IN THESE words the Apostle is evidently thinking more especially of the trespasses and sins into which men and women fall. We are not to rejoice over their failure, nor talk about it to others, but to consider ourselves, remembering…

One Word to Start Over

. . . for by your words you will be justified,  and by your words you will be condemned—Matthew 12:37 Men sin. We all do. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8). Fortunately, it’s not our sin that keeps us from God’s…

God owns the whole works.

There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever—the…