Selfishness is the sin that kills relationships. Self-righteousness is religion. Self-esteem is pride. Self-gratification is lust. When our self is inconvenienced, infringed, impugned, or injured we get angry, bitter, mean, and hateful. Selfishness destroys your relationship to God and those around you. The original sin was selfish when an entitled man and woman became vain […]

Jesus was baptized twice. The second one is where we should pay attention.

Studying the Bible is not hard, unless you are just plain doing it wrong. How do you know if you are doing it wrong? If you think the most important thing about Genesis 6 is that there were “giants in the earth in those days”… If the most used chapters in your copy of 1 […]

The mystery of Christ affects how you preach salvation.

When I hear someone giving import to the middle book, chapter, or verse in the Bible then I perceive that they have an inclination toward the superstitious, or are appealing to those that do. Though spreading superstition is bad, what makes it worse is when they get the chapter and verse wrong. Either they do […]