Yesterday as we talked about wisdom I mentioned in passing that in the letter that we call 1 John, John exhorts us to “test the spirits,” and this is consistent with one thing we’ll hear Jesus say today and leads to our focus question of the day — What’s one way to “test the spirits?”

If you just don't know what to do, what should you do?

What does it mean to be "in Christ?" What might that mean for the longing of our hearts?

You don’t have to look too hard to see Jesus affirm the Old Testament — both in whole when he used a phrase like “the law and the prophets,” and specifically when he affirmed the veracity of stories like Adam and Eve, Noah and the flood, Jonah and the overstuffed minnow, Sodom and Gomorrah, and many prophets by name. Oh, and directly quoted from 24 of the 39 books. But the New Testament? Wasn’t that written after Jesus’ death and resurrection? I’m glad you asked!

Are you a true disciple of Jesus? Put another way, what did Jesus say is the way everyone would know you’re a disciple of Jesus?

If we ask, "What’s the Bible’s 'tale of two cities?'", you might guess that I’m talking about Jerusalem and Babylon. But the tale, the story, metaphorically permeates the whole of the Bible and therefore the Christian worldview.

If someone were to say, “She is pragmatic,” there is probably a good chance that that would be a compliment. After all, the dictionary definition of adjective pragmatic is that it means you deal with something sensibly and realistically, practically rather than theoretically. In philosophy, pragmatism means something altogether different…

"What does God want for you?" could be a whole book unto itself. But today we’re going to examine it in light of our OT and NT segments, because it’s a message of hope — and more. More importantly, it’s a good reminder of truth in a world where almost-truth abounds, and it’s always profitable to focus for a moment on the thing that should make your heart sing.

A killer story of Jesus healing a blind man reveals not one, but two, causes of spiritual blindness.

Do we ask of others what we really can only expect from Jesus? Since I know people are going to hurt me, do I do what Jesus does and wade in anyway?