Episodes
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
COA #40 - Keep Your Conscience Clear
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
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.
Monday Nov 15, 2021
COA #39 - Confess Your Sins
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
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?
Friday Nov 12, 2021
COA #38 - Revere No Idols
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
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.
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
COA #37 - Avoid Worldly-Minded Believers
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
This is clearly the most difficult of the three "avoidance commands" (participation, association, avoidance) to lay hold of.
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Command #13 - Commit No Sexual Sins
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Surely the Command against sexual sin is one of the most straightforward in the Gospels.
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
COA #36 - Do Not Associate With Immorality
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
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.
Monday Nov 08, 2021
COA #35 - Do Not Participate in the Sins of Others
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
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.
Friday Nov 05, 2021
COA #34 - Sin No More - Do Not Yield to Sin
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
The progression of commands in this section grows probing, stringent, convicting...eve, perhaps we should say, impossible.
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
COA #33 - Hate Evil
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
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.
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Command #12 - Guard Against Ambition
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
We all face personally unique challenges to purity of motive, outlook, attitude, and behavior. For some, sexual purity is life's most difficult arena of temptation. Others are scarcely lured by sexual sin. But deep inside, every one of us has something the enemy will try to use--subtly, invisibly, persuasively, seductively, below the radar of our awareness--to turn our eyes off the bull's eye of the Commands.