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• How Can You Get Rid Of Sexual Impurity?

  In Cultural Commentary, Opinion, Personal Opinion & Commentary / 6 July 2011 / 0 comments

  A reader asks: How do you get rid of sexual impurity in your life? I would venture so far as to call myself a sex addict. How do I get help? Should I confess my transgressions to my wife? – – – – – – – – – – – – – - You ask a question that I believe highlights the “dirty little secret” in the Church today.  With the onslaught of entertainment, cable TV and especially the Internet, pornography has become epidemic. Our society is SATURATED with sex, and the typical Christian has become so desensitized to it, that things that don’t even make us blush now would have been considered the height of gross immorality as little as 10 years ago. So [...]

   

• Does My Life Testify To My Salvation?

  In Bible Answers, Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 5 July 2011 / 0 comments

  A reader asked: I grew up a Nazarene; at 18 wandered until 39 then came to a Bible believing church and asked for forgiveness. I was once a heavy drinker and a bad father. That all stopped. Over the past 8 years I have been active in many ministries and have helped others. But never once have I heard God speak to me. The only thing I feel is in my gut and can only describe as “the little angel on one and the little devil on another shoulder” guiding me. What am I missing? I pray many times a day and read scripture nearly every day. I do not want to go backwards to before. How can I really, really feel a complete connection? [...]

   

• Prayer – Does God Listen To Non-Christians?

  In Christian Opinion, Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 1 July 2011 / 2 comments

  A reader asks: How does God hear the prayers of people who aren’t Christians? Growing up, I was taught that He only heard the prayers of His children, but I know that He hears the sinner’s prayer of salvation, so this can’t be entirely accurate. I know that pop culture would have us believe that anyone could and can turn to God at any time with a prayer and He will listen. What does the Bible say? – – – – – – – God hears the prayers of non-Christians when GOD CHOOSES to hear the prayers of non-Christians. Unlike God’s children who have been PROMISED access to the Throne (Heb 4.16) and PROMISED the Spirit as an Intercessor (Rom 8.26), non-Christians have no such [...]

   

• Judging – Are Christians Supposed To Judge?

  In Opinion, Personal Opinion & Commentary / 1 July 2011 / 0 comments

  I have received several emails about being “judgmental” when I speak directly about someone like Oprah, Joel Osteen or the Mormons. Am I being judgmental? Are Christians supposed to judge? Is judging ever called for and proper? Christians, and good people in general from a civil viewpoint, are called to judge RIGHTLY, which is evaluating the FRUIT (behavior, choices, production) of good and evil. Why are we able to able to “judge” Osama Bin Laden as “bad?” Why? His actions. Take for example my comments about Oprah. I have been called judgmental for them. We judge Oprah because of her public teaching. You judge her public words. You judge her publicly proclaimed false teaching as compared to a RIGHT standard (God’s Word). While we do [...]