Add to your faith goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love

Biblical exhortation to cultivate self-control and other virtues to deepen our faith, honor God, and resist false teachings

Peter urges us to add goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love to our faith (2 Peter 1:1-9). By cultivating self-control and other virtues, we prevent ineffectiveness and deepen Continue ReadingAdd to your faith goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love

Critical Review of Alexander Hislop’s The Two Babylons

Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons has commendable concern for doctrinal purity, but the methodology is flawed and speculative.

Alexander Hislop’s The Two Babylons argues that many practices and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church are rooted in ancient Babylonian paganism. Hislop contends that the Catholic Church, through its Continue ReadingCritical Review of Alexander Hislop’s The Two Babylons

Stirring Up Love and Good Works

Hebrews 10 teaches us be intentional about stirring one another to love and good works to build up the body of Christ and bring glory to God.

Let’s consider how to provoke (stirring, spurring, motivating) one another to love and good works, not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one Continue ReadingStirring Up Love and Good Works