por T.J. Sands | 05 de julio, 2022 | Fue un largo viaje desde Oklahoma hasta Kentucky, pero al menos hubo preciosos parajes: la creación de Dios y de la humanidad. Sarah y yo comenzamos nuestro viaje el domingo en la madrugada, y al atardecer habíamos pasado por una fábrica de caramelos, un museo de […] Source: https://atoday.org/la-convencion-de-pastores-called-de-la-division-norteamericana/
Psalm 91, verses 11-16 #shorts
Northern Caribbean University Theology Student Has Heart Attack While Officiating Aunt’s Funeral
NCU theology student Kevar Brown had a heart attack during his aunt’s funeral and later died on the way to the funeral. Brown had only one semester left to complete his degree at NCU. He worked abroad canvassing to help pay his school fees instead of finishing his last semester. Brown was the ninth of […] Source: https://atoday.org/northern-caribbean-university-theology-student-has-heart-atttack-while-officiating-aunts-funeral/
Praying at the 50-Yard-Line
by Frank Merendino | 4 July 2022 | “Supreme Court sides with high school coach over 50-yard-line prayers. The justices’ decision found that the school system infringed the coach’s religious freedom and freedom of speech rights by seeking to block him from engaging in public prayers on the field.” —headline, Politico I am not an […] Source: https://atoday.org/praying-at-the-50-yard-line/
Tuesday: Crucibles of Sin
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18, NKJV).
Everything we do has a consequence. If you stand in the hot sun with ice cream, it will certainly melt. Cause and effect always go together. And no matter how desperately we may want things to be different, it is the same with sin. It always reaps consequences.
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It is not that God sits in heaven wondering what terrible things He could do to people who sin; no, sin itself comes with its own built-in consequences.
The problem is that many times we think that we can somehow outwit God, and sin without experiencing the consequences. It never happens. Paul makes it very clear that sinning has consequences not only for eternity but painful and distressing consequences today.
In Romans 1:21-32, Paul describes the process of people falling into sin and the consequences of those sins. Read these verses prayerfully and carefully and summarize the essence of what Paul is saying, focusing specifically on the stages of sin and the consequences.
A couple of verses earlier Paul describes these consequences as the “wrath of God” (Romans 1:18). God’s wrath in this passage is simply God’s allowing human beings to reap what they sow. Even for Christians, God does not always intervene immediately to remove the pain that results from our own actions. Many times He allows us to experience the consequences of our actions in order for us to understand how deeply damaging and offensive our sin is.
We have been considering the consequences of breaking God’s moral laws. But what about breaking God’s health laws? Our bodies are God’s home. If we abuse our bodies by failing to eat healthfully or to exercise, or if we regularly overwork, this is also sin against God. And this has consequences that can create the conditions of a crucible.
| In your own life, how have you reaped the immediate consequences of your own sins? What lessons have you learned? What changes must you make in order not to go through something similar again? |
Amen!
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