Christians often equate being innocent of evil with being ignorant of evil. Our desire to come out from among evil and be separate from it, gets confused with being blind to that evil. And that ignorance of evil and its tactics are wrongly equated with achieving holiness. So when emissaries of the evil one come among… Continue reading Wise as Serpents: Innocent as Doves Does not Mean Ignorance of Evil (Part 10 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)
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Some Common Wrong and Harmful Notions about Forgiveness and the Cross
In this post we further examine the comment which a pastor called Phillip submitted. In this post we discussed his assertion that "Jesus speaks of divorce being permissible, and His reason for such is that our hearts can be hard." In this second part, we discuss what He said about forgiveness. Please note that we are… Continue reading Some Common Wrong and Harmful Notions about Forgiveness and the Cross
