When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God…” he is suggesting that it is possible for us to imagine things that are incorrect – we are capable of misconceptions. And, as it turns out, there are in fact, many things we imagine about God, and about Christianity, which are not true at all. For instance,
February 17th, 2019
Do We Pay for What We Have Done?
A few years ago as I was walking out of a church, a man said to me, out of the blue, “Well, I know we all have to pay for what we’ve done…” I don’t know what he was talking about, or what specifically was on his mind, but it struck me that this is exactly the way many people think: that we all have to pay for what we’ve
February 17th, 2019
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
In 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached a now-famous sermon entitled, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Edwards was guilty of propagating a common falsehood, that is, that God is angry because of sin. This misrepresentation of God continues in our day. On 9/11 I heard two prominent ministers interviewed on television. They both agreed that 9/11 was God’s judgment upon America because of sin. God is not judging America
February 17th, 2019
Getting Rid of the Fear of God
In his first epistle, the Apostle John has a lot to say about our relationship with God, which he describes as a relationship based on love, specifically God’s love for us. He writes that “we love him because he first loved us.” Our love for God, therefore, is merely a response to his love for us, because, as John says, he loved us first. Furthermore, the Apostle Paul tells us