Our culture has, in many cases, abandoned these traditional family structures. Many voices today tell us that family is whatever you want it to be. Many are working to upset and reverse the traditional understanding of family. There is a great deal of confusion and moral chaos on these issues in our culture today. But we need not be confused about these things. Family is what God originally designed it to be, and our responsibility is to conform our families to God’s expectations. Read More ...
True Christians hold these doctrines strongly; these are our doctrinal convictions, our strongly-held beliefs. These are non-negotiables of the faith. We must believe them as we find them in the Bible. To fail to believe them is to put yourself outside the faith once delivered to the saints. These are the truths that the Bible commands us to hold fast without wavering or compromising. We can and should be bold and fervent in holding these doctrinal convictions. Read More ...
In many areas of life, we must compromise. We must be flexible and be willing to change our views. We can hold our opinion and preferences tentatively and conditionally. But we do not have that option regarding the primary teachings of the Bible. On such things, we stand on our convictions without compromise. Read More ...
Because God made us, he has the right to tell us who we are and what we are supposed to do. He has authority over us. Our responsibility is to accept ourselves as God’s creation and live within the parameters he has set for us. We must trust that God made us who we are intentionally. Read More ...
Under the sovereignty of God, we strive to be both prudent and prayerful. We trust God and we take precautions. We affirm both God’s sovereignty and human responsibility. We work as though everything depends on us, and we pray as if everything depends on God. We are both prayerful and careful. Read More ...
It’s easy to say that we would trust God when a child is born with a defect or a loved one suffers with a disease. We say that we would continue to serve God even if a tornado destroyed all we own. It’s an entirely different thing to actually trust God as those things are happening. Read More ...
Government policies and procedures may not be what we want them to be, but we can be assured that God is sovereign over national, political, and military affairs. We must believe that his purposes are being fulfilled through these instruments. Read More ...
We can trust that God has a plan, and he is working out that plan by causing people to think and do various things. We don’t know how it’s all going to work out, but we trust that God is active in controlling human thought and behavior for his own purposes. Read More ...
We readily admit that the sovereignty of God is a difficult, even troubling doctrine, especially when we are facing pain, sorrow, disaster, and disappointment. To know that God ultimately is behind all the events of our lives can be difficult to accept. It’s sometimes almost easier to believe that God is not in charge. It might be easier to believe that it was random chance or pure bad luck than that God has brought it or allowed it. Read More ...
We must believe that God is upholding, directing, disposing and governing all things to the end for which they were created. That’s what the Bible clearly and repeatedly teaches—God governs all things. God is in control of all events in the universe; there are no maverick molecules. Read More ...