Clothes Make the Man

You adulterous people!  Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?  Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  James 4:4  ESV Makes himself – Are you making yourself God’s enemy?  Ah, you object, proclaiming, “No way.  I am saved and devoted…

The City on the Hill

to sum up, let all be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kind-hearted and humble in spirit.  1 Peter 3:8  NASB Brotherly – This is a word you are not likely to forget, once you know what it is.  The word is philadelphio.  We have a city in Pennsylvania by that name.  It literally means “brotherly love.”  There…

All in the Family

“And a second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” Matthew 22:39  NASB Love – We all know that this Greek word is agapao.  Agape love is the standard of Christian concern.  We also recognize that it is self-sacrificing love, based not on what I might receive from another but solely on…