Thank God Almighty we are freer at last!
1 Corinthians 6:12. “’Everything is permissible for me’—but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me’—but I will not be mastered by anything.” Paul is arguing against a popular saying in Corinth at the time that many within the church seem to have taken as gospel truth (pun...
Love covers a multitude of sin
Love covers a multitude of sins. This saying is not as well known as other sayings that I have covered in previous blogs, but it seems to come up regularly in sermons with no context and without much explanation. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I hope to give you...
Money is a root to all kinds of evil
Money is the root of all evil. This saying is obviously derived from I Timothy 6:10 (“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”), but there are several flaws in it. The most obvious flaw is the missing phrase at the beginning; it is...