Be Bible Bright

            I am a part of a church that has a “Sunday School” time before our whole church meets together for corporate worship on Sunday morning. As with many local churches, our Sunday school attendance is considerably lower than what church leadership would like it to be. This four-part series seeks to demonstrate the value…

            To be winsome or to be offensive? Occasionally, that is the question we are forced to answer if we want to speak at all. Sometimes there is no middle ground; either we say something that may offend, or we must alter the content of our words. To add to this, sometimes people get offended…

            The Bible is a book of wisdom. Now that does not mean that other kinds of literature don’t exist in the Bible, but it is to say that all of the Bible provides us wisdom or reveals to us the One who is Wisdom. Throughout the Bible, God is pictured as the source of…

            I remember reading and being very confused by 1 Jn 2:7-8 the first time I read it on my own. The text says: “Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.…

            This is a bonus article in the series on our need as Christians for political and cultural awareness. We have noticed that we need a basic, yet solid, understanding of the society we live in if we want to (1) avoid the sins that our culture subtly and not-so-subtly promotes, (2) address those sins…

            This is the third and final post regarding our need for political and cultural awareness as Christians. This kind of awareness is simply paying some attention to the world around us, what motivates and moves people, and how society functions. There could be much more said, but so far, we have briefly looked at…

            The temptation to completely detach from the culture and the world around us is real, especially as America becomes more and more detached from a morality rooted in Scripture. But as Christians, we need to be generally aware of the philosophies of this present age (1) to avoid the sins of the culture, (2)…

            Sometimes we as Christians can want to cloister ourselves away from the world by not keeping up with what is going on in the world. We can think “I am not of the world… (which is true, see John 17:16) so I don’t need to pay attention to what is going on around me,…

“‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,’” – Jer 31:31             As a Gentile (someone who is not ethnically Jewish), knowing that I too can be part of God’s people is very important to me. This is…