by Don Wiley | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
I listen to a lot of sermons – a lot. And I do listen carefully and am often inspired, sometimes enlightened, but then again sometimes I am distressed, even angered at the horrible error spewed forth from some pulpits. Here is something I heard a preacher by...
by Don Wiley | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
When scripture urges us, even commands us to be perfect, God is speaking of morally perfect. We are not to lie, steal, commit sexual offenses, etc. We still might put the tea kettle on the stove without any water in it, take a wrong turn and get lost while driving,...
by Don Wiley | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Paul agrees with his fellow apostle John that a believer need not sin. Then why is Paul, of all people, used as an example of a defeated Christian? Why is Paul used as an example to prove that a believer cannot be completely delivered from committing sin in this...
by Don Wiley | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
There is a preacher, or Bible teacher, who can be found supposedly expounding the scriptures daily on at least a couple of local television stations. The other morning he said, “I haven’t been out of bed fifteen minutes before I commit my first sin!”...
by Don Wiley | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Of course we struggle with the temptation to sin, “But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Cor. 9:57). “Now thanks be unto God, which ALWAYS causes us to triumph in Christ” (2 Cor. 2:14). Notice,...
