Sodom and sin: looks can’t predict the long-term outcome
The Tower of Babel; Abram and his family moves around the Middle East, with Lot eventually settling in Sodom, only to …
Tag Archives: sin
Confess your sin and be forgiven
The first of three anonymous letters to an unnamed group of believers: 1 John 1–5 Can Christians sin? Will God forgive …
God disciplines those He loves
A letter to Hebrews (Part 4): Hebrews 11–13 Tough times can be the result of God, our heavenly father, smoothing …
It takes more than milk to grow up
A letter to Hebrews (Part 2): Hebrews 4–6 The Corinthians had already been lectured about their need to grow up …
Dying to beat death
A letter to Hebrews (Part 1): Hebrews 1–3 It’s a crazy idea: how could dying break the power of death? …
Rescued and reconciled with God
Paul’s letter to the believers in Colossae: Colossians 1–4 It’s God who rescued us from our sins and their consequences: Colossians …
Jesus made us friends of God
Paul’s letter to the believers in Rome (Part 2): Romans 5–8:17 Jesus is the place of our atonement, the place …
Jesus the place of atonement
Paul’s letter to the believers in Rome (Part 1): Romans 1–4 What did Jesus do on the cross? He was …
It’s sin: keeps you on milk forever
Paul’s first letter to the believers in Corinth (Part 1): 1 Corinthians 1–3 Paul had spent some time in Corinth. it …
How can you tell if you’re living to please God?
Paul’s letter to the Galatians (Part 2): Galatians 4–6 While all believers benefit from God’s grace, Paul sounded a warning …
Refuse to believe? That’s sin
Jesus tells the disciples they are going to be hated, and that He is about to go away and what …
Truth vs slavery
Jesus explains that being free is about more than being a Jew or not a slave, then insults the people …
Pray and keep praying
Jesus teaches about prayer, fasting, judging others, entering heaven through the narrow gate by doing God’s will: Matthew 6:5–18; Luke …
Bad shepherds vs the good shepherd
God sets Ezekiel as a watchman for Israel; Ezekiel prophesies over Egypt, Edom, and the ‘bad’ shepherds of Israel, then he …
THIS (iron) cooking pot
Nebuchadnezzar starts his final invasion of Judah: 2 Kings 25:1–2; Jeremiah 52:3–5; Jeremiah 39:1; Ezekiel 24 So it wasn’t the iron …
Who led David to take a census?
David sins by taking a census, chooses a consequence that is stayed at Jerusalem, then buys a threshing floor to build …
