“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18-20) Do you remember what Jimmy Carter once said about the sin of lust? Then President Carter shocked the nation in […]

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:34) When you look worry up in the dictionary, my picture should be next to it. I even worry about the fact that I worry. Worry is not a Christian quality. It is sin and represents nothing more than an innate fear of the unknown. It’s exactly what our Christian faith should remedy. So just what does the Bible have to say to those of us who […]

“He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses correction goes astray.” (Proverbs 10:17) I’ve often said that I learn as much from my readers as I teach. Last week’s column about degrees of sin, and the story in Exodus 1 of the Hebrew midwives’ decision to lie to the Pharaoh in order to save the lives of newborn Hebrew male children, reminded me again just how much I can learn from you. In case you missed the column, the point I made […]

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.” (Acts 3:19) We have all been taught that any sin is a deadly sin, and but for repentance, it will send you to hell. The above verse certainly supports this spiritual truth. However, many of us have also been taught, wrongly I might add, that there are no degrees of sin. There certainly are degrees of sin and there are a number of verses in the Bible that point to why I would reach such a […]