Every verse in the Bible is important, if it wasn't, it wouldn't be in the Bible. God would not have put it in His Word. There are, however, some verses in Scripture that stand out to us as quite extraordinary. One of those verses is I Thessalonians 5:18―"In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." Notice, we are admonished to give thanks "in" everything, not necessarily "for" everything. For instance, while we cannot be thankful for evil, we can be grateful to a sovereign God in spite of it, assured that He is working all things out for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).

1 Thessalonians 5:18 teaches......

According to Brian McLaren, a leader in the emergent church movement, we’ve moved into a new age when it comes to our understanding of the Bible. McLaren calls this new era "Bible 3.0." According to him, the Bible must be seen as less inerrant and more like "conversation with everything and everyone." This new understanding of Scripture has been necessitated, McLaren argues, by the broad range of readings and interpretations of the Bible on the internet. McLaren contends that the result of everybody hearing everybody else's interpretation of the Bible requires Christians, the lone stewards of the Bible in the world today, to stop insisting that there is only one right way to interpret Scripture. In other ...

Hundreds of MI pastors: Stop 'gay' civil rights or send me to jail

Maybe some of my fellow pastors are beginning to wakeup to the fact that the legalization of same-sex marriage is not some benign live-and-let-live proposal, but a nefarious and malignant attempt to silence the church in America. The LGBT community is hellbent on silencing all opponents of their agenda by co-opting the coercive powers of government in order to file financially ruinous civil litigation for discrimination and criminal charges for hate crimes against anyone raising so much as a peep of opposition to being forced fed their sexual perversion and blatant immorality. As this article points out, Michigan pastors were moved to take this bold stand by the ......