Monthly Archives: November 2015

The 1960s brought new meaning to “free love” from which our culture has never recovered.  We witnessed hippies, racism, drugs, and general dis-ease among our people.  Instead of keeping religion and the law and dealing with the wrongs being committed, we jettisoned religion and law [at first we tried to change it, but increasingly, courtsContinue reading “The Meaning of Holiness: How the Law Impacts Us Today – Part 2: Political Correctness”

Our culture and many in our churches believe the law takes away our freedom.  Increasingly the law is being replaced by what seems right and feels right according to our perceptions of the facts in the moment without the patience or the wisdom to consider what the facts actually are.  The law is interpreted to reflectContinue reading “The Meaning of Holiness: How the Law Impacts Us Today – Part 1: Does God Change?”

In an attempt to define holiness, we will look at a reformer, a few confessions, and writers from each century since the Reformation.  I will put the century in which they wrote in parentheses and the work in brackets.  Unless it is a commentary, their works will be cited in Further Reading. Many begin withContinue reading “The Meaning of Holiness: Some of What the Scholars Have Written”

Welcome back.  Today we delve into the meaning of holiness.  The common definition given is “set apart” because God is definitely set apart or different from creation.  To understand God, we must understand his holiness and what set apart means.  Usually you hear words like pure, righteous, sacred, godly, and consecrated, but what do thoseContinue reading “The Meaning of Holiness: an Introduction”

God spoke through the prophet Jeremiah to his people telling them that their journey had come to an intersection.  They had to decide which path they would take.  Most had walked away from God’s ways.  The army of Babylon was coming to carry the people of Jerusalem into exile.  Jeremiah pleads with them to choose theContinue reading “Holiness: the Focus of the Journey”

Do you worship?  Some say they do; others not so much.  Some might claim not to worship at all.  As I heard a minister say lately, worship is alive and well in this nation; just look at Sunday afternoons, evenings, Monday night, and Thursday night.  What about the internet, twitter, and blogging?  Often we giveContinue reading “Holiness Affects Our Worship of God”