I am generally averse to risks. This is not to say I do not take risks at all; such an extreme would make life practically unlivable. I am merely hesitant to act without a degree of rational assurance toward my desired outcome. To myself, I justify a balance of James 4:13-15 and Matthew 6:34, whereby…

Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be…

Imagine a friend of yours accompanies you everywhere you go; they see everything you do, and hear everything you say, both when you are alone and when you are with other people. They don’t draw attention to themselves, or give direct reaction to your behaviors, but all the same you are aware of them and…

Those who speak of “Church discipline” are often primarily concerned with extreme cases thereof, such as the addressal of heresy or disruptive dissent. At times in the Church’s history, the responsibility has been egregiously misconstrued to entail all manner of un-Biblical punishments within the supposedly Holy Communion, all the way up to torture and execution….

Do you know God loves you? It doesn’t matter if you believe it; it doesn’t even matter if you believe God exists at all. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) Not willing that He should…

Heresies are born from misconceptions of God; believing God to be other than He is, heretics follow after something thereby unlike God, an idol constructed of imagination. Such misconceptions in the secular world are often based on arrogant speculation (sometimes idle, oftentimes malicious), which fails to anchor itself to what God has revealed of Himself…