One Life – The pressure of the “Immoral Woman” is all around us!

Further from Proverbs 7 – Verse 12 describes”the immoral woman” as “lurking at every corner.” Verse 7 describes her victim as “a young man devoid of understanding.” In this current age so many of us are the “young man.” The world has its own agenda, constantly offering alternatives to God and His way in life, and it is sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly, but always constantly, pressing its false promises against us as the harlot in the 7th chapter presses her charms against the “young man.” She knew his weaknesses and used them against him until he went for her and then “an arrow pierced his liver.” The world presses against us as water presses against a dam and an arrow waits for those of us who listen to her as well. Water presses against a dam in a...

One Life – Will The Immoral Woman Please Stand Up?

As many of you know I frequently cycle through the book of Proverbs during my daily morning quiet time, reading the chapter that coincides with the days date. (That makes it easy to remember!) I don’t do so every month but occasionally, as I think of it, I’ve done so many times over the years. Sometimes I get an insight that I haven’t seen elsewhere and share it. Today let’s look at a different way of thinking about a phrase found in Proverbs, chapters 5, 6, 7. Let’s start in chapter 5, verse 3 and substitute the words “the way of the world” for the words “an immoral woman.” (NKJ) When I think of the way of the world I imagine all that is part of “the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the sinful pride of life” (I John 2:16) or those things that the evil one...

A Christian Company?

Can a business be Christian? Of course it can! In the same way that a school, or a family, or a genre of music or literature can Christian, so can a business. For years I have heard the spurious argument that since “a business can’t go to heaven” that the use of the term Christian applied to same is invalid. This is nonsense. The word can and is completely properly used as an adjective, to modify and further clarify a noun, And it is amazing to me that every one of the pious critics that I have encountered who declaim the term when used to describe a business have no trouble at all using it in the previously mentioned contexts and others. This distraction is not helpful. The question is not really can a business be a Christian business but how and what does the term mean? When we...