The Bible and Our Culture

Motives are important, but don't wait to ask.

Obey Christ's command and ask.

Sitting on Santa's lap a helpful analogy for how we should ask God?

 

Romans 1:18-32

Honesty is better than intellect at everything including mental health.

Living in darkness includes more than denial, but it certainly includes denial. 

Denial will destroy your life and society which is why God's wrath is toward "suppressing the truth".

Bible verses have different applications when you look at passages from different perspectives.  That is, it all lines up beautifully; but we can see different truths when we look at passages from a bird's eye view, versus viewing from a microscope.

Do you correct mockers?  The Bible has different applications for different reasons.

Wise people welcome correction.

 

When should we take a stand or shut up?

Solomon warned not to correct the wicked, but Jesus said we are blessed when persecuted.  How do we live?

Take a Strong Stand, but Wisely

Correcting fools? When and why.

There is a time to avoid giving correction, but there is a time to be willing to do so.  

1Corinthians is consistent that we must let God judge, but echo His judgments as we "judge" righteously.

Judge by being an echo or a ditto.

We must aspire to be good at Judging.

The gospel of John is consistent that Jesus didn't judge but simply re-stated the Father's judgments.

Judge righteously.  Get good at it!

"Lose your soul," "take up your cross" "surrender all" versus typical American sales and marketing.

Why are we ashamed of our biblical morals?

We can't pick and choose Scriptures.  The popular versus are not more inspired than the less renown verses.  

Come to Jesus on His terms, not other Christians'.

Come to Jesus on His terms, not yours.

Jesus' "marketing" campaign is not like anything else in the culture.

Jesus expects everything from us.