New for October
Wives, Submit to Your Idiotic Husbands
The television shows I grew up watching, especially sitcoms, often portrayed husbands as bumbling fools rarely to be followed. I recall Deborah Barone (from Everybody Loves Raymond) looking annoyedly at her husband, Ray, and growling, “Idiot!” The Bible takes a different view of husbands. Paul wrote:...
Just As I Have Loved You: Loving Like Jesus Did Before the Cross
The night before Jesus was crucified, during his upper room discourse, he said this to his disciples: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34). His example...
When Sexual Sin Stalks You
We live in a society that has become a cesspool of sexual filth. But sexual immorality is not only pervasive in our culture, it is present in the church. If anger has slain its thousands among believers, then sexual sin has slain its tens of thousands....
Pulling Up Stakes, Putting Down Tyrants
The apostle Paul speaks of our helplessness before the tyrant Sin. It reigns over our lives, he teaches in Romans 6. He speaks of it as a slavery that cannot be broken. If a man without Christ attempts, through sheer will power, to correct himself, he...
