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We use words every day. We talk to our families, our friends, our neighbors, people at work, people at church, and sometimes complete strangers. We talk when we are happy, when we are angry, when we are frustrated, when we are tired, and when we are trying to make a point. Sometimes we speak without thinking because we are so used to talking a certain way that the words simply come out. But Scripture shows us that our words are not something we should treat as meaningless. What comes out of our mouths can reveal what is truly inside us, affect the people listening to us, and teach other people what we believe is acceptable. David understood that controlling our speech requires more than simply deciding not to say certain words. He asked God to help him watch what came out of his mouth: “Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips!” Psalm 141:3 . David was asking God to help him put a guard over his own mouth because he understood that he was responsible for wh...

There is a sentence Paul wrote that can easily be read over without realizing just how much is packed inside it. He said, “None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had, they would not havecrucified the Lord of glory,” 1 Corinthians 2:8. That is an astonishing statement. Paul was not saying that nobody had ever heard the Scriptures. He was not saying that nobody had ever spoken about the coming Messiah. He was saying that the people who were involved in what happened to Jesus did not truly understand or even know who He actually was. They had the Scriptures, yes. They had the Law. They had the Prophets. They had the promises. They had generations of people who had been waiting for the One God would send. They had all that. Yet when He stood in front of them, they just did not recognize Him. Paul's actual Greek words make this even clearer. He wrote ἔγνωκεν, egnōken, has known or recognized , and then ἔγνωσαν, egnōsan, they knew or recognized . He then used ἐσταύρωσ...

There is something I want us to look at very carefully, because sometimes we read the words of an apostle and automatically place them beside the words of Jesus as though they carry exactly the same authority.   But I don't do that.  My standard is Jesus.  Period.  So when I read what Paul says about women, I have to look at what Paul says, and then I have to look at Jesus.  Not what the church says Jesus meant.  Not what tradition says Paul meant.  Jesus. Period. Paul has quite a bit to say about what women are supposed to do and how women are supposed to conduct themselves.  That was his pharisaic training.  He never really left it behind when he was converted.  In 1 Corinthians 11, he tells women that when they pray or prophesy, they are to have their heads covered.  He reasons from the order of creation, saying that the man is the head of the woman and that the woman is the glory of the man.  He then argues that a wo...