Episodes
Thursday Mar 28, 2019
COA #40 - Keep Your Conscience Clear
Thursday Mar 28, 2019
Thursday Mar 28, 2019
In now climaxing this series of "Turn from sin" commands, we recognize that it would have been equally appropriate to have begun with the conscience as with the admonition to repent.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
COA #39 - Confess Your Sins
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
We are familiar with the saying, "Confession is good for the soul." There is little doubt that confession is cleansing. Yet why does confession make us feel better?
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
COA #38 - Revere No Idols
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
This sounds like a command straight out of the Old Testament. What came to your mind when you read the words--a crucifix on the wall, a statuette, a golden calf, a revered object such as people have been falsely worshipping for thousands of years? However, here we're talking about idols of another kind.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
COA #37 - Avoid Worldly-Minded Believers
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
This is clearly the most difficult of the three "avoidance commands" (participation, association, avoidance) to lay hold of.
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
COA #36 - Do Not Associate With Immorality
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
The mirror probes deeper. Indulgence in sin may be passive. Participation raises the stakes a little higher. Now the command becomes active, forceful, imperative: Don't even associate with immorality.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
COA #35 - Do Not Participate in the Sins of Others
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
The practicality of the progression continues to tighten like a noose around our necks. Can it get any more real than this -- Do not participate in the sins of others.
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
COA #34 - Sin No More - Do Not Yield to Sin
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
The progression of commands in this section grows probing, stringent, convicting...eve, perhaps we should say, impossible.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
COA #33 - Hate Evil
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
We suddenly crash headlong into a command whose reality may be difficult to penetrate at first glance. You may have turned the page and feel like you rounded a corner and collided with a stranger.