My subject is discipleship today, and normally I would teach you what to do right, but today I have decided to teach you what to do wrong. The title of my Bible study is "How to be a Bad Disciple." A couple of you, I think, have heard …
Genesis 6:9 is a commonly misunderstood verse that has spawned doctrinal error. Some have used it to justify their belief in their racial superiority, and others have wielded it to break up mixed-race marriages and exclude believers of …
Jesus never said anything remotely political. The closest He came was in His adroit answer to the Pharisees' crafty question regarding paying taxes to Caesar: "Why do you test Me? . . . Render therefore to Caesar the things that are …

(4) Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
The word "with" will be the focus of our attention as we seek to understand more thoroughly our identification with Christ. The scripture says we were buried "with" Christ. Jesus was literally buried in the heart of the earth in a tomb …
The book of Psalms opens with an introductory psalm that describes the righteous or blessed man in contrast to the ungodly, to sinners. The author, perhaps David, shows that one can identify such a godly person not necessarily by how much he knows or how righteous he appears, but by what he does and what he produces. Psalm 1:1 begins the description negatively in contrast to the sinner: "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful." So instead of the psalmist writing that the righteous man believes …
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