The Real John 3:16

     Traditions, things passed on through time that people believe and often  without question. This not only happens throughout secular history but also through Christian Church history. We as humans are often , I believe, either too scared or too apathetic to challenge the status quo. Because of this apathy, the Christian Church suffers the way it does. Instead of taking heed to 2 Timothy 2:15 we accept things without any careful study because of the majority acceptance. But this is why we are here today. We are here to study and to learn in-depth the things of our Christian faith. We are here to challenge the status quo of some of the things that are said or believed in the Churches today. Now, I am not saying that all tradition is wrong and not to be believed, but I am saying that there will be traditions that stand true and strong and there will be some, when challenged, that fall and are found to be simply not true. John 3:16 is one of the most wonderful and also often quoted verse in the entire Bible. It is a verse that you yourselves have memorized in Sunday school; or even if you were saved in your older years, it is a verse you have heard many times. You see the verse on billboards, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and Tim Tebow's face during the College football championship game a few years ago. But what does this verse mean? How is this verse normally seen today, and how was it seen in the past? Are we taking this verse for granted and feel no need to think deeper to what it possibly means? To look at it in isolation, without the surrounding context? I think so. I challenge you to put on your thinking cap and don't be afraid to challenge yourself in the study of this verse. I encourage you to read this and not let your emotions dictate you, but rather let the truth you learn dictate your emotions. For I am human like you and we do not like to be wrong, but if we claim Christ as our Lord then we must submit ourselves to the infallible Word of the living God. Here we go, lets get into the verse.

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 ESV

Household according to the Bible

    One of the major doctrines in which I have been spending a lot of my time and thought on lately has been on a doctrine which has been very much misunderstood in our day in age. And that is the doctrine of paedobaptism (infant baptism). Now I will not be spending time on this particular doctrine (perhaps on another day). But through my studies on infant baptism I have been reminded of some really neat things in scripture, things which have been running in my mind this past year and a half or so, things which have been growing in my Christian worldview. Within these things there is one thought in particular I want to talk about, and that is the idea, or better yet, the reality of a household, particularly a Christian