On Confession of Sin

A believer’s confession of sin is to be done within the context of the Christian community, but not to any human with [supposed] power to forgive or retain the sins of the one confessing.  Three appropriate venues of confession are to be noted.  First, some sins that are public and detrimental to the testimony of [...]

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The Roots of Sin

The meaning of all that is in the world and is from the world appears in the three qualifying descriptions of sin’s categories.  Sin is the dominant reality in the world and, launching from this verse, it is helpful to look more extensively at sin, by definition called “lawlessness” (1 John 3:4) – any violation [...]

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