Tag: freedom

  • Finding the Evangelical Freedom of Balaam in our Evangelical Church

    .. promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption.. 2 Peter 2:19a LSB Why does the Apostle Peter point to Balaam? Do evangelical pastors of Christ’s Church have the freedom to accept all prophesy and every doctrine? Note the similarities of the growing popularity of Balaam of Pethor, whom Moses introduces in Numbers…

    map of Moab to Midian from Numbers 22 and reference in 2 Peter 2 to Balaam
  • Am I not free? Religion 1 Corinthians 9

    Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? 1 Corinthians 9:1 New Heart English Bible Freedom and Religion Eric Kress outlines two main points of application from the previous chapter of 1 Corinthians 8: Paul’s 4 questions intertwined in…

    The Apostle Paul takes on religion in Corinth by asking 'Am I not free?'
  • Stand fast therefore in the liberty

    It’s Memorial Day (celebrated holiday in the not-so-united States). Flags for freedom flown for feasting leaders of the free world or drawn to half staff for some politically offensive act of violence by an ungodly man. Hardly a memorial to any who have died for the freedom of any man or woman who suffers the…

    48 star flag US Navy