The Christian and sin

stevo5o

I got into an interesting discussion with a friend of mine the other day and this question came up…can a Christian go through an entire day without sinning? I thought the answer was no because there are not only sins of commission, there are also sins of omission. I asked him that if we really thought through an average day and really examined ourselves, we could come up with some sort of sin of, if not commission then omission. He said it was possible for a Christian to make it through a day without sinning, but highly improbable.

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Has (Serious) Christian Fatherhood Changed Over the Past 50 Years?

Ed Vasicek

The Bible’s commands to parents (and husbands/wives/children) has not changed. But, in your observation, are serious Christian dads different than they used to be? Or are the differences superficial? Time to opine!

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Has (Serious) Christian Fatherhood Changed Over the Past 50 Years?

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Aphorisms for Thinking about Separation: Command, Intent and Application

swalker

Please, consider reading the preceding article before delving into this one. While I’ve tried to make each stand alone, they are linked together.

Aphorism 1: The debate among Bible believing Christians about separation is fundamentally about the how to apply the passages in the Bible commanding separation.

Aphorism 2: All applications of the commands of Scripture are based on a particular context outside the Bible. Therefore unless the context is identical to what was intended by the Bible, an application cannot be as normative as Scripture itself.

Allow me to share an explicit command of Scripture, repeated five times in the New Testament which is patently ignored at least in literal obedience by almost all churches in the United States: “Greet one another with the kiss of love” (ESV, 1 Peter 5:14; cf. 1 Thess. 5:26, 2 Cor. 13:12, 1 Cor. 16:20, Rom. 16:16).

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New BJU President

Jay
Steve Pettit has been named the new President of BJU, as per their Twitter feed.

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School uses secually graphic books w/o parental consent

Chip Van Emmerik

I’m going to post the link to the story, but I am going to warn everyone the article repeats several of the offensive passages, at least in part. What struck me most was the duplicity. Just the other day we were confronted with a school refusing to allow a child to read his Bible during free time.

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