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Marked and Made Clean
The Bible in a Year “And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.” Leviticus 13:45 As we move steadily through Scripture together, passages like Leviticus 13 can feel distant from everyday faith. The laws concerning leprosy strike modern readers as severe, even uncomfortable, yet…
Some words about the effects of listening to songs – written by Shaykh ul-Islaam ibn Baaz (rahimah Allaah)
Some words about the effects of listening to songs – written by Shaykh ul-Islaam ibn Baaz (rahimah Allaah)
Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Bāz [رحمه الله] said:
“The most likely effect of songs is loving imagery and deeming lewdness good. Moreover, being addicted to it makes reciting and specifically listening to the Qur’an unfavorable to the hearts. If this is not hypocrisy, what then should hypocrisy be?”
[Fatwas of Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Bāz, (3/415) | Alifta]
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Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Bāz…
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The Sin Binge: what we may not realize about the nature of sin
What does sin do to us? In western culture today, people seem to not worry about the negative effects of sin as an action. We accept our imperfection and we move on without even striving to be better. Instead we embrace that imperfection, making statements like:
“I’m just gonna do me!”
“Don’t judge me!”
“Only God can judge me!”
“I’m only human.”
And “Turn down for what?”
What we fail…
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Quote 3: Linda S Reeves: Saturday Morning: April 2014
We as parents and leaders need to counsel with our children and youth on an ongoing basis, listening with love and understanding. They need to know the dangers of pornography and how it overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.
Source: Sister Linda S Reeves
This is good solid advice for anybody.
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The Trouble With Sin Is
The Trouble With Sin Is
This post is part of an ongoing series called Christianity 101, which explains the basics of Christianity without using Christian language for people who don’t have any experience with Christianity. You can catch up here.
The damaging effects of the rebellion against God that Christians call “sin” are evident and widespread. God had appointed humans as caretakers of the created order. When we…
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Our Daily Bread Christmas Edition V
Grandpa’s Tree
When I first saw the twisted Christmas tree, I wished Grandpa were alive to fix it. He could make any tree beautiful. No matter how bad it looked when we gave it to him, it was beautiful when he gave it back.
He would get out his saws and…
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Human sins have consequences. When individuals disobey moral law, a tangible form of evil is created in the world that must be accounted for. And this is even more true when a whole society goes astray. One recalls the horrible sin of slavery in this country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is a demonstrable fact that American culture has paid deeply for this travesty and continues to do so. Would it not be a word of grace to hear that our communal suffering has been brought to closure, the debt satisfied? In my mind, this is the type of reality that biblical authors are trying to express. Human wickedness does have a cost, but those costs are not infinite. Second Isaiah can speak his words of comfort because the term of punishment that God has permitted Israel to suffer has come to a close. "Her debt has been satisfied; she had received double for all her sins."
Gary A. Anderson, Sin: A History, 54.
When one sins, something concrete happens: one's hands may become stained, one's back may become burdened, or one may fall into debt. And the verbal expressions that render the idea of forgiveness follow suit: stained hands are cleansed, burdens are lifted, and debts are either paid off or remitted. It is as though a stain, weight, or bond of indebtedness is created ex nihilo when one offends against God. And that thing that sin has created will continue to haunt the offenders until it has been engaged and dealt with.
Gary A. Anderson, Sin: A History, 4.
