When What You Own Takes Hold of You

In the Life of Christ “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” — Mark 10:25 Money can solve many problems. It can repair a leaking roof, purchase needed groceries, and provide transportation to work. Scripture recognizes theContinue reading “When What You Own Takes Hold of You”

The Freedom of Belonging

On Second Thought There is a word in the New Testament that modern believers often struggle to embrace comfortably: bondservant. Paul opened the book of Romans by calling himself “a bondservant of Jesus Christ” (Romans 1:1). The Greek word is doulos, meaning one who is fully devoted to another in willing submission. In a cultureContinue reading “The Freedom of Belonging”