Letter From Jim Adultery, Commandments, Disobedience, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Relationships, Sin, Temptation, Ten Commandments In “Letter from Jim,” Garrison Keillor tells the story of a man with a PhD in classics who, after years of teaching at the… READ MORE
The Secret History Commandments, Disobedience, Evil, Following God, Hate, Obedience, Sinful Nature, Ten Commandments In the novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a group of affluent college students decide to murder a close friend of theirs. As… READ MORE
The Breakfast Club Commandments, Disobedience, Following God, Honor, Obedience, Respect, Ten Commandments The commandment to honor your father and mother of course gets tricky when you have abusive or manipulative parents. It is important to read… READ MORE
Boiling Point Anger, Disobedience, God's Character, God's Sovereignty, God's Wrath, Mercy, Patience, Slow to Anger, Wrath Imagine a pot of water, full to the brim, boiling on the stove. The water in the pot goes through several stages of heat… READ MORE
Lesson Learned 2 Chronicle 7:14, 2 Chronicles 36:15-16, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, Disobedience, Example, God's Covenant, Israel, Joshua 1:8, Leviticus 26:1-13, Obedience, Punishment, Warning If you grew up with siblings, you can probably remember seeing one of them get in trouble and punished. Did their example keep you… READ MORE
Temptation Avalanche 1 Corinthians 10:13, Consequence, Disobedience, Faith, Grace, James 1:13-18, James 4:1-4, Luke 11:4, Luke 22:40, Luke 4:13, Matthew 6:13, Pride, Redemption, Sin, Temptation, Trouble, Trust, Trust in God Giving in to one temptation can lead to an avalanche of more and more trouble. This video from CBS News shows one snowboarder’s bad… READ MORE
An Act of Worship 1 Peter 3:15, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Acts 8:30-35, Colossians 4:4-6, Disobedience, Faith, Gospel, Grace, Joy, Mark 5:18-19, Praise, Sin, Wisdom, Witness, Worship In May 2016, Chance the Rapper, a hip hop artist from Chicago, released the album Coloring Book. It contained a unique exploration of his… READ MORE
Out of Control 1 Chronicles 29:11-12, Accountability, Choice, Colossians 1:17, Control, Disobedience, God's Character, Hebrews 4:13, Jeremiah 32:27, Providence, Psalm 90:2, Sin, Sovereignty, Trust, Unchanging Psychologist Julian B. Rotter developed the concept of “locus of control” in the 1950s. A person has either an internal (life events result from… READ MORE
