Truth
A Blunt Instruction from John
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever…
Read MoreIs Anything Believable Anymore?
The world is chaotic of late. Military conflict abounds. Fentanyl continues to spread, claiming lives that are ending far too early. Men pretend to be women and women pretend to be men, and this is now characterized as the new “science.” Grotesque surgeries are mutilating children. The Olympic Women’s Boxing championship bout featured two X/Y…
Read MoreContend Earnestly for the Truth? What Truth?
There is a phrase that has been growing in popularity, one you may or may not have heard, but one you most certainly will hear if you are paying attention. I am uncertain of the origin or first use of the phrase “post-truth,” but it seems to have gained momentum with the Oxford Dictionary’s choosing it as…
Read More2019 – A Year of Truth
My early career in full-time ministry was devoted to working on university campuses. There, I ministered directly to young men and women who were laboring to expand their minds – to broaden their worldviews. Effective ministry to university students requires an understanding of how they view their world. I had to crawl inside their heads,…
Read MoreWe Are Hated for Truth
Taking a stand for Christ, for truth, for righteousness will make a target out of a Christ-follower more quickly than anything else. Any Christ-follower who would deign to verbally, publicly stand against sin must be prepared for an inevitable onslaught of back-pressure from the evil one. The world is not friendly toward Christ-followers, and at…
Read MoreRed is the New Green
I was reading Psalm 43 this morning. It is a brief, five-verse psalm, and in the middle, verse three says this: “Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!” (Psalm 43:3 – ESV) As I pondered that, I began thinking about…
Read MoreLights Walking the Lighted Path
I can say, with confidence, that the current presidential election is the most disheartening of my lifetime. From where I sit, voters have no good choice. And the truth is so easily obfuscated by skilled candidate rhetoricians that many voters do not know what to believe. One candidate says to the other, “You said/believe/support ‘A,…
Read MoreThe Disciples Simply Didn’t “Get It”
It has been too long since my last Shades of Gray posting. The life-realities of this world have rudely inserted themselves in my path repeatedly of late, and have distracted me from pursuing my core passion. I apologize for that delay. One Shades of Gray reader recently commented: I don’t understand why the disciples of…
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