Revolution of the Heart, Part 3: Cleanness Comes From Christ’s Effort (Mark 7:18–23)

October 6, 2022 Nate Holdridge

Every nation, people group, political party, and educational system is populated by broken people. Even the best-laid plans and philosophies are tainted by the sinful hearts of humanity. This is a major difference in the Christian worldview. We know mankind is not basically good, but that evil is bound up within our hearts. But we also know there is hope. Though we cannot make ourselves clean, Jesus Christ can make us clean by his blood. (6 Minutes/1500 Words)

Walk In Your Father’s Love, part 2 (Ephesians 5:3-6)

November 23, 2018 Nate Holdridge

Paul has just instructed his readers to imitate the love of God as demonstrated in the sacrificial cross of Christ (Ephesians 5:1-2). Our love is to be one which lays aside the self and lives for the betterment of others. It might seem odd, then, to hear Paul immediately move into an exhortation to flee sexual immorality, sexual impurity, and sexual covetousness. How is this an imitation of the love of God? (800 Words / 4 Minutes)