by Stuart Chase | 5 May 2017 | Articles
Finish this sentence: God hates … What is the first thing that comes to your mind? Adultery? Murder? Blasphemy? If you were to rank sins in terms of heinousness, what would your list look like? It is true, of course, that Christians should hate and seek to avoid all...
by Stuart Chase | 27 Apr 2017 | Articles
Jesus was once asked what is the greatest command in Scripture. His answer was simple: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” He said that this is “the great and first commandment” (Matthew 27:36–40). Love...
by Stuart Chase | 12 Apr 2017 | Articles
There is a misnomer in Christian circles that all sin is equal in the eyes of God. This is perhaps based on a misunderstanding of texts like James 2:10, which reads, “Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.” James’s point is...
by Doug Van Meter | 14 Mar 2017 | Articles
I have at times been chided for being tight-lipped about my family. That is, since I am careful to prudently guard my family’s privacy, I have historically been cautious about what I share with others concerning family matters. Of course, when I have sensed that we...
by Doug Van Meter | 13 Sep 2016 | Articles
Lately, I’ve been musing on congregational life in the local church, both its immense privileges as well as its responsibilities. The following is a “first instalment.” As a child, I did not always heed my parents’ admonitions. Though they spoke straight to me, and...
by Joachim Rieck | 2 Mar 2014 | Articles, Eastside Baptist Church (Windhoek, Namibia)
Today’s headlines (24/02/2014) in The Namibian carried the title, “Nation of sick men” written by Shinovene Immanuel and Nomhle Kangootui. This headline comes in response to the ninth killing this year, and the sixth in about three weeks, of women by their boyfriends....
