Scripture in Action

When we call God "Our Father" we acknowledge two things: One, I am a child of the Father; two, every other believer is also a child of the Father. Do we truly believe this?

One day the apostles went to Jesus, asking him to teach them how to pray. They had undoubtedly been taught several ways of praying, just like we have, but they must have noticed that Jesus prayed very differently from them. What did he teach them?

We have heard this passage so often, we believe we understand what Jesus is trying to say here: not to put on public displays of our acts of holiness, but to be a little discrete. That is the primary lesson, of course, but we might obtain a few more jewels if we dig deeper.

One of the things we often say is: “I’m only human.” What do we mean when we say we *only* human? That we are pathetic, miserable, useless creatures who cannot help but sin, right? But is that what we are?

When Jesus was quoting that part about “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” he was actually quoting Scripture. Does this mean that God allowed for vendetta? Not quite so!

The world lacks people of integrity today. It would be wonderful if we Christians could be men and women of integrity, people of their word. How do we begin? 

Studies have shown that the divorce rate has risen by 250% since 1960 and steadily rising despite the number of marriages falling. What can we do to stop the number of divorces?

Lust is something that nearly every single one of us struggles with. How do we resist it? Here are a few things we might want to try.

We all make mistakes. And despite our best intentions to the contrary, we will continue to make them. We will say things we shouldn’t say and do things we shouldn’t do. When we apologize, we take responsibility for our actions, admitting that we made a mistake.

Jesus used to get mad with the Pharisees, calling them a brood of vipers, because he didn't like their sense of self-righteousness. We can be guilty of this, too, so let us understand what self-righteousness is if we want to ensure that Jesus doesn’t say *we* belong to a family of snakes!