The Discipline of Service

Genesis 12:1-3; Matthew 20:25-28; John 13:1-17 Jesus declared that He came not to be served but to serve.  Jesus also taught that any who would be His disciple would follow His example because “the servant is not above his master.”  Like many of the spiritual disciplines this one flies in the face of the accepted values of our culture.  The natural order of things says that to be served, to have others meet our ...

Confusing Knowledge for Obedience

 One of the more quotable figures of American history, Mark Twain, said, “It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I don’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”  At first blush it seems like an odd thing to say but upon closer examination we begin to identify with his discomfort.  There are some things contained in the Scriptures that are difficult to understand, there is no doubt ...


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