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"Even acceptable pleasures become sinful if you pursue them to the neglect of what is commanded in the Bible."
The world is falling apart while many in the church are choosing pleasure above God. Take some time to talk to the Lord this week about how you are using your time. Consider if hedonism has crept into your life, the false idea that pleasure is the highest form of good.
Read MoreThe fact is, the Bible says a lot of things and some of those things seem to contradict each other. You want to do the right thing. You want to trust God, but you have a nagging feeling that you should do something besides pray, so you say to yourself, “The Lord will take care of it,” and saunter along chewing on a blade of grass. Are you exercising faith or being presumptuous? Are you trusting in the Lord or being lazy?
Rest assured, the Bible does not contradict itself. You should trust God, pray, and do something. But how do your needs, God’s sovereignty, His promises, and your responsibility to obey the Lord work together in the predetermined plan of God’s eternal, sovereign, and unchanging decree?
Read More"If we will not give Him glory in our prosperity and ease, God often puts us into impossible situations so that we will be forced to look to Him, pray to Him, and trust Him for deliverance."
Read More". . . plucked from its context, like a cactus dug up from the desert and planted in the alpine snow, you might think it is a great verse to help you or others stay humble and content."
Read More"If you go to a church that doesn’t have doctrinally oriented expository preaching, it will show up as theological shallowness and lack of discernment in the congregation."
Don’t let those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, or those who have not read the entirety of the Bible, tell you that the God of the Old Testament is different than the God of the New Testament. There is only one God. He has chosen to manifest Himself in three distinct persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is an immutable God and cannot change. In both testaments we see all of His divine attributes on display.
Read More"Any woman who desires to give glory to God and love others will not transform herself into a visual stumbling block."
Read More"If you want to have a God glorifying marriage that brings you great happiness and joy, you have to reprogram your mind with God’s standards and quit taking relationship lessons from the world. Remember, Satan is the god of this world. His single desire is to make you miserable, not happy. He presents the bait of lustful pleasure, but within he conceals the hook of pain and misery."
Read MoreThe purpose of www.drivennails.com is to help train expository preachers in sermon construction and delivery, to train inductive Bible study writers and teachers, and to edify the saints with the Word of God.
Two questions stand out: 1) Did Jesus actually descend into hell? 2) If Jesus did descend into hell, why? Get your Bible. You are going to need it as we search the Scriptures to answer these two questions. In the process, we will also find an answer to a third question, “Who are the sons of God in Gen. 6?” If you like solving mysteries, you will love this