Proverbs 5 serves as a warning from a father to his son about sexual immorality. Sexual seduction is at the core of his admonition, but the matter of seduction, generally speaking, is in view here as well. There is much here for every Christian,...
Expectations. We all have them. Sometimes our expectations are fulfilled, sometimes they are exceeded, but sometimes they come up short. Sometimes we are disappointed. Largely speaking, religious Jews in the first century were disappointed with what...
Proverbs 5 serves as a warning from a father to his son about sexual immorality. Sexual seduction is at the core of his admonition, but the matter of seduction, generally speaking, is in view here as well. There is much here for every Christian,...
Almost everything Jesus did and said was scandalous to those who would not repent and believe on him. This remains true today—at least for those who, like the scribes and Pharisees, were self-righteous. The self-righteous are offended by the...
BBC has been through a difficult time recently. Our membership has decreased, for various reasons. In addition to this, many of us are aware of very serious challenges and painful suffering that members are facing. Some are so wounded that they are...
Forgiveness: We all need it. Forgiveness: We all need to grant it. Forgiveness is our greatest need—so why is it so difficult? The passage before us is about forgiveness—God’s forgiveness—and is set in a context of controversy. Jesus’s...
We must not be naïve. The Christian life puts us in the middle of conflict. Our hearts cry because of despair and despondency when things are not as we expect. At such a time, we must cry out to the true God, the God of the Bible, David’s God.
The great hymn, What a Friend we have in Jesus, serves as an important reminder of God’s love for his people. It serves as a great encouragement for us to pray to the one who is merciful. In fact, as we will learn below, he is so full of loving...
Proverbs 5 is a warning, specifically a warning against unbiblical sex and a call to biblical sex. Solomon urges his son to keep his hands off other women, but to keep them on his wife. There is one type of sexuality that must be avoided at all...
John Bunyan once wrote, “You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.” The passage before us serves as a powerful example of this truth. Here we see Jesus praying. And then doing more...
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