Singing to One Another in Worship

I was intrigued by this verse from Ezra 3 in my Bible reading today: And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD... (Ezra 3:11 ESV) The word that caught my attention was the word "responsively". My initial study revealed that a lot of modern translations actually leave that word out - which is really a shame because it really is needed to give the sense of what was going on...

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Are we OK with some sins?

I ran across this article last week and it got me to thinking about whether we are really OK with some sins but not others: http://www.faithit.com/9-sins-the-church-is-okay-with/ I know that these are the kinds of sins that I tend to struggle with and I need to remember that in God's eyes they are just as serious as the "big" sins I see in the lives of others. We would all do well to remember Jesus'...

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HOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT APPLY TO THE LIFE OF A CHRIST FOLLOWER TODAY? - Part 3

Part 3 of a 3 part post: Let’s work through an example of how this process can be used. We’ll use this command from the Book of Deuteronomy: “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.Deuteronomy 22:8 (ESV) I checked it out very carefully and I am pretty sure that this commandment...

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HOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT APPLY TO THE LIFE OF A CHRIST FOLLOWER TODAY? - Part 2

Part 2 of a 3 part post: Now we’re ready to develop three principles that will help us answer the question we’ve posed: 1.     If there is an Old Testament Law that is restated in the New Testament, then it is still binding and valid Most of the moral law fits in this category. In fact, we’ll see this next week as Jesus begins to take several of the Ten Commandments...

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HOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT APPLY TO THE LIFE OF A CHRIST FOLLOWER TODAY? - Part 1

I first this together several years ago, but wanted to share it again after a lot of you just finished reading Leviticus with me. It's fairly log, so I'll share in in several parts over the next few days.       Like we find with so many areas of our lives as Christ followers, people often tend to drift to one of two extremes when answering this question. Although it is becoming less...

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Some thoughts on Leviticus

For those of you who have been reading the book of Leviticus with me for the last month or so, I wanted to share a few thoughts: My guess is that if we didn't have some kind of systematic Bible reading plan, we'd probably just skip over Leviticus. It's not easy to read and much of it seems so irrelevant to us in the United States in the 21st century. But there is actually much we can take away...

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A Challenge for Us as Men

I ran across this video on my Facebook feed today and wanted to pass it on to other men.  https://www.facebook.com/GodsNotDeadTheMovie/videos/842824672487983/ This is well worth five minutes of your time to watch this and whatever additional time it takes to think about what you need to do in your life to address this challenge.  About the only fault I can find with the video is how a...

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