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• My Husband Beats Me – Does God Say “Tough Luck”?

  In Christian Advice, SeriousFaith / 11 November 2009 / 12 comments

  

  Question (I’ve removed all details and changed some things to protect the identity of the person who submitted this): I understand what you are saying about there being two biblical reasons for a divorce but let me share something with you. My husband and I have been together for a while, and for much of that time I’ve been a victim of his anger, including physical violence. I have stayed and tried to lead him to Christ and be an encouragement. I have stood by him repeatedly but each episode has gotten worse ! I have been choked and punched repeatedly in the head while I was holding our infant and our tween-age daughter was home .  I protected my children even though there has [...]

   

• Independence Day – 9 Guidelines From Paul – Part 4

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. (NKJV)Practicing Christian liberty is neither license (“I’m free to do whatever I feel like”) or legalism (“here’s my list of convictions that should be yours too”). It is the individual pursuit of enjoying the freedom that Jesus Christ died and secured for us. It is the liberty to experience a relationship with the Living God and cultivate a relationship with Him.To close this series, I want to look at Romans 14 where the Apostle Paul lays down nine guidelines for us to employ in the exercise of our Christian liberty.Accept the weaker personv.1 – “Receive one who is weak in the [...]

   

• Independence Day – Decisions Decisions – Part 3

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. (NKJV)When you are looking at a decision that falls within the realm of your Christian liberty, it is helpful to have some established (in your own mind) guidelines. These guidelines allow you to evaluate whether this particular liberty is God’s will FOR YOU, or His “best” for you. It doesn’t necessarily mean “don’t do it” if you can’t answer these questions affirmitavely, but it does give you an objective way to evaluate the liberty at hand. Let’s look at a few questions to ask when exercising liberty:Does is edify everyone involved?1 Corinthians 10:23-24 All things are lawful for me, but not [...]

   

• Independence Day – To Liberty Or Not To Liberty – Part 2

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. (NKJV)When talking about Christian liberty, one of the most common questions is “how do you know what falls into liberty, and what doesn’t?” It really boils down to a couple of things. First, is there clear commandment, principle or instruction from God’s Word? Second, is it an “essential” of Christianity and what are the essentials? It could be argued that any clear command from Scripture becomes an “essential” and in a sense that would be correct but for the purpose of this lesson, we’ll define an essential as a truth, if changed or denied, would constitute a different Gospel, teach salvation [...]

   

• Independence Day – Part 1

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Psalm 119:45 And I will walk at liberty, For I seek Your precepts. (NKJV)As July 4th – Independence Day, Liberty Day, Freedom Day – approaches in America, I find myself with mixed emotions. On the one hand we are still the great land of opportunity and arguably have the most freedom in the world to create, or waste, what we do with our lives. On the other, the freedoms that once made America the greatest exporter of the Gospel, benevolence and hope in the history of the world are increasingly being given up for comfort, security and hedonism. Liberty Day has become a day for both celebrating and concern.As I was thinking about this [...]