Two big ideas emerge from our Old Testament and Wisdom segments today -- what is the big deal about man being formed from the dust of the earth? IF God, THEN…
#1317: Why be a Bible nut? | Luke 23:26-24:35 | 2 Chronicles 9 | Proverbs 13:20
#1316: What earthly reason was why Jesus was crucified? | Luke 22:39-23:25 | 2 Chronicles 7-8
#1298: What to say to “I believe in science”? | Luke 7 | Job 36-37
#1297: Are atheists bad? | Luke 6:26-49 | Job 32-35
#1282: Can Christians lose salvation? | Hebrews 6 | Job 1-2 | Psalm 29
#1281: What always accompanies promises of God’s love? | Hebrews 5 | Malachi | Psalm 2
#1278: Why did Jesus have to become human? | Hebrews 2 | Nehemiah 8-9
#1260: What about those snake-handling verses? | Mark 15:20-16:20 | Daniel 9 | Proverbs 11:6-9
#1259: What should you remember about clothes-tearing? | Mark 14:53-15:20 | Daniel 8 | Psalm 98
#1257: What’s the big deal about 70AD? | Mark 13 | Daniel 6 | Proverbs 10:29-11:2
#1255: Why do Jesus’ predications of his own death matter? | Mark 10:32-11:33 | Daniel 4 | Proverbs 10:29
#1249: What’s the relationship of love and rules? | Mark 5 | Ezekiel 45.13-46:24 | Proverbs 10:12-17
#1248: What is most encouraging? | Mark 4 | Ezekiel 44-45:12
#1242: Is the Old Testament God mean? | Revelation 20 | Ezekiel 37:15-28 | Proverbs 27:13-28:28
#1240: Should you “answer a fool?” | Revelation 18 | Ezekiel 35-36:15 | Proverbs 25:16-26:5
#1232: What do we say about the "rapture?" | Revelation 7 | Ezekiel 26-27 | Proverbs 20:24-30
#1229: Redemptive remembering? Part 2 | Revelation 3 | Ezekiel 20:45-21:32 | Proverbs 20:1-5
#1227: What is the “retribution principle?” | Revelation 1 | Ezekiel 17-18 | Psalm 93
#1223: What do you mean by that? | 1 John 3:11-4:6 | Ezekiel 9-11
Last week in the book of John we talked about his exhortation to “test the spirits.” Today in 1 John we actually get to the place that he wrote that. And our focus question today is going to riff off that again, albeit from a different angle — a problem that we all face in testing the spirits and a deceptively simple solution you can use.