Tag: sin

• The First Counseling Session

  Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5but for Cain and his…

  bradshawjoel

  March 7, 2023

  genesis

  abel, anger, anxiety, barbecue, bible, cain, christian, control, counsel, counseling, depression, faith, genesis, genesis 4, God, heart, hope, obey, sacrifice, sin, temptation, trust

• Heavenly Identity

  18And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 20There were seven brothers; the first took…

  bradshawjoel

  February 25, 2023

  mark

  angels, bible, christian, father, future, God, heart, heaven, heavenly, husband, jesus, mark, mark 12, marriage, perspective, purpose, relationships, sadducees, sin, theology, trap, wife

• Inside Is the Problem

  14And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:15There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” 17And when he had entered the house and left the people, his…

  bradshawjoel

  February 19, 2023

  mark

  bible, christian, God, heart, hypocrisy, inside, jesus, mark, mark 7, perspective, pharisee, problem, serious, sin, tradition

• Grace Is God’s Business

  13But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?14Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me?…

  bradshawjoel

  January 20, 2023

  matthew

  attitude, bible, christian, equity, fairness, God, grace, heart, jesus, matthew, Matthew 20, mercy, perspective, romans 3, romans 6, salvation, sin, wage, work

• Accept this Saying

  15The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 16But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him…

  bradshawjoel

  December 9, 2022

  1 Timothy

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• Saul and Suicide

  1Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 2And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he…

  bradshawjoel

  December 8, 2022

  1 samuel

  1 samuel, 1 Samuel 31, bible, christian, death, God, jonathan, perspective, samuel, saul, sin, suicide

• Saul’s Altar

  31They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint. 32The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood. 33Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with…

  bradshawjoel

  November 21, 2022

  1 samuel

  1 samuel, 1 Samuel 14, altar, attitudes, barbecue, bible, blood, christian, God, heart, Leviticus 19, motivations, sacrifice, saul, sin, vow

• A Sin Problem

  25“If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?”–1 Samuel 2 Eli was on the downside of his priestly career and his two sons were sinning as fellow priests. He confronted them with this line I highlighted above. It’s actually a profound…

  bradshawjoel

  November 8, 2022

  1 samuel

  1 samuel, 1 Samuel 2, bible, christian, forgive, forgivness, God, humility, mediation, mediator, reconciliation, repentance, sin, sins, theology

• More Than a Good Person

   8Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the…

  bradshawjoel

  October 4, 2022

  philippians

  bible, christian, cross, faith, God, good, Gospel, hope, jesus, paul, philippians, Philippians 3, sin, story

• The Vicious Cycle

  11And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. 12And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to…

  bradshawjoel

  September 11, 2022

  judges

  bible, christian, cycle, deliverance, God, grace, heart, hypocrisy, judges, judges 2, punishment, sin