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"You sit over there and someone will speak to you shortly." The typical church experience is very much like our experience in a physician's waiting room. We go to the building where we are to obtain service then wait patiently in our seats until the expert arrives. After the expert talks we...

Corinth was a large city in Greece. In the first century, perhaps 200,000 people lived there. When Paul wrote his first letter to the church in Corinth some scholars estimate that there were around 150 ekklesia at that time. In his first letter to the Corinthian Church Paul wrote the...

I believe Christ and the Bible are the most powerful force of good in human history. I am trying to ascertain what the Christian Chat members think about the statement. Yes/No/Something else?

As a shadow of things to come, Ezekiel 7 begins like this: "Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land." Note that this is written to God's people: "..the...

Harmeet Dhillon, a Sikh, offered prayers to her demon god Vaheguru. One notable line: "..we thank you (Vaheguru) for creating America as a unique haven on this earth where all people are free to worship according to their faith" Ms. Dhillon also thanked Vaheguru for the "Chardi Kala Spirit"...

Fellowship (Greek = koinonia) is typically a noun. Only once is it used as a verb and then only in a phrase. The church often uses the word as a verb. “I will fellowship with him” or “Let’s get together and fellowship”. Once, because he thought that it was the way to start meaningful speeches...

Just for clarity: a harlot sits opposed to the wife of a man. She is a prostitute. She offers some of the benefits of the wife (mostly in sexual favors) but none of the enduring substance of a marriage covenant. The Great Harlot is mentioned in Revelation chapter 17. She is shown to be "drunk...

John Lindell, lead pastor of James River Church in Springfield, MO, hosted the event. Mark Driscoll seized the opportunity to insert himself into the conversation by calling out the sin. This is on brand for someone who likes the stage light. Driscoll has a history with the Mars Hill church...

The gap between God and man widened following the fall and with the passing of long centuries, the task of restoring man to the original intent of God became formidable. God destined the human race to come from the first man and woman He created. Consequently, the generations of man inherited...

The text we’ll examine is Ephesians 5:21-23 "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ...

Paul actually wrote about this in his first letter to the church in Corinth: “And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”...

The attending verses are below. I’ll present them in their entirety and then break them down. 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the...

As some of you know, I spent over 20 years in the behavioral health field. Over that time I got to know a lot of people who were addicted to drugs. When I was young, I thought “why is it so difficult to stop doing the drug that is destroying your life? “ What I didn’t understand was that their...

Galatians, Ephesians, and Hebrews in the New Testament unequivocally teach that the law makes you a slave, the law was what men received as a result of disobedience, refusal to come into the presence of God; they ended up under the law. But there are those who would say, “Well I have a lot of...

In the church, we've been so used to institutional functioning that it's difficult to conceive of any other form of functionality. The box of our thinking, with respect to where the church operates, is that it's institutional; members derive their authority from the institution. This is the...

(Note: Please pardon the brevity of this post. Think of it as more of an outline.) From the title, your mind probably went to the Ten Commandments. This is excusable because, like me, any mention of “God’s Commandments” when we were growing up, specifically meant “The Ten Commandments”...

12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name...

I was a Clinical Therapist for 16 years and I left at the end of a 7-year stint as the CEO of a Comprehensive Service Agency. The common narrative is that this country (U.S.) and most of the world are in the middle of a mental health crisis. I will offer my insight to anyone who asks.

People who insist on church attendance often quote this scripture as the gold standard for proof of their assertion: “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one...

I did not know where to start this for several reasons: I wanted to make it brief enough so that the gist of the message would not be lost within the paragraphs; But, I wanted to make it comprehensive enough because the saints deserve the very best. I hope what I wrote strikes somewhere in the...