Perfect love drives out fear. In this part of his letter John gives the struggling Christian church assurance about the signs they belong to Jesus namely: the Spirit of God has led them to believe the truth that Jesus is … Read more
Category: Hypocrisy
Matthew 16.1-28. Time to decide
We, like people before us, change God’s word to suit us and that makes us hypocrites. Liberalism, like the legalism of other times, is dull because it only teaches us what we already know, what we already want to believe, … Read more
Matthew 13.1-23. Choking the word of God
Why doesn’t God make himself more obvious? Jesus’ answer is that God does make himself clear and will one day make himself unavoidably so but what we see or understand now of God depends upon whether we see ourselves clearly … Read more
Luke 11.37-54. Blindness
This continues a teaching series on the arguments Jesus had and caused. Here we find Jesus is not a polite dinner guest. But the stakes are high, the discussion is about the true cause of evil and the help we … Read more