The Sound Word

Simplicity, Separation, Peace  Crying Out for the 'Good Old Days'     2 Corinthians 6:7     "Therefore, "Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."   Back in the Old Days. The way it used to be. The "New Testament" Church. When things were simple. There is much to be said for our current wave of technological advances. There is simply no arguing its intrinsic benefits. Areas such as health care, communication, emergency response and so much more have benefited in such a way that mankind is far better off. But at the same time technology can be a curse. What technology has a tendency to do is detach us from our focus on Jesus - and everything else for that matter. When I was a young boy, Star Trek (reruns that is, I'm not that old...) was a popular TV show, and I remember having to watch it before my Dad got home from work, because I knew he's have been made for 'wasti...

Proof-Texting (This has nothing to do with your cell phone...)   Acts 20:25-32   " Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.  "Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. The reforma...