How to Talk With Kids About Racism
Trillia Newbell (video)
“I don’t want to let the culture teach my kids about racism, I want them to understand that we live in a fallen world., that we have all sinned against God, and one of the ways our sin is manifested is the way we treat each other.”
10 Things You Should Know About Shame
Heather Nelson (article)
It’s one thing to believe that your sin has been removed from you; it’s quite another to believe that there is a divine love that can never be removed from you.
What is Righteous Anger?
Rick Thomas (podcast/article)
Righteous anger is a term we created to describe anger that is not sinful. Though it is possible to be angry and sin not, the question is, how do you know if your anger is righteous or sinful?
How to Overcome Pornography
Paul Tripp (video)
Paul Tripp gives counsel to those who have given into the temptation of pornography, wishing to defeat it.
Why Does It Appear We Experience So Little Freedom In the Christian Life?
David Robinson
(Article) If God has the power to lead over a million people out of Egypt, why do I still feel enslaved to darkness or sin? Galatians 5:16-18 gives us help...
Idols and the Hope of Grace
Paul Tripp "The desire for a good thing that becomes an ultimate thing is a bad thing."
Dealing With Someone Else's Sin
Jared Olivetti How do we (Biblically) deal with someone else's sin? Consider this a cheat sheet - gathered through study of God's Word and more-or-less successful conversations with others.
America's Most Tolerated Sin: Eight Lessons on Gluttony
Jonathan Bowers Gluttony is perhaps the most tolerated sin in American Christianity. And I think if we’re honest with ourselves, most — if not all — of us have a dysfunctional relationship with food. We love it, and we hate it.
How Can We Be Angry and Not Sin?
Jon Bloom “Be angry and do not sin” (Ephesians 4:26). Is this even possible? Not if perfect, sinless anger is the requirement, since sin infects everything we think, say, and do. But I don’t think Paul had perfect, sinless anger in mind. Paul’s point seems to be that not all anger Christians experience is rooted in the prideful, selfish soil of our sin nature...
Scripture's "Top Two" List
Ed Welch The Apostle Paul has a tendency to give us lists of sins. He gives us at least five of them.* At first glance, it feels like he is simply piling it on. But his lists include a recurring structure that brings keen insight into the human condition. He identifies the overarching category of renegade desire, and he typically calls out two expressions of this desire: sexual sin and anger.
Anger Lite: Being Annoyed but without Sin
Paul Tautges As I think about Jesus being irritated by what Warfield calls a human being’s “blundering misunderstanding” of the divine agenda I am left talking to myself, asking questions like these:
How did Jesus experience irritation and yet not succumb to the temptation to sin against those with whom He was annoyed (Heb 4:15)?
Sin is the Only Bad Word Left
Melissa Edgington A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about a celebrity that went viral. Hundreds of thousands of people read it, and several hundred chimed in to let me know how much they loved or, more often, despised what I had said about the situation...
5 Mentalities of a Porn "Addict"
Mark Shaw While many of my books and booklets have a focus upon substance abuse issues, a struggle with any “addictive” pleasure of sin is a war within one’s heart desires...
Why God Doesn't Remove Our Sinful Cravings Immediately
J.D. Greear Every Christian I know has had the experience of coming up against the same sin—again—and wondering, “Will this struggle ever end? Why doesn’t God just remove this?” ...