God's Health Plan: Part 1

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth. (3 John 1:2)

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. (Psalms 139:14)

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; ...that thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health among all nations. (Psalms 67:1,2)

As our Creator, God knows what is best for us, our mind, body and spirit. A person's mental, physical and spiritual health are interrelated and interdependent. True Bible religion includes practical health principles found in God's word.

Christians and Trade Unions

 

Should Christians be part of trade unions? Is it not our employer who pays our wages? How should we deal with wicked employers? Is striking a form of rebellion? What does the Bible have to say about an employee's obligations to their employer?

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:10

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we Eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Matthew 6:25-34

Female Authority in the Church: Part 1

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over a man, but to be in silence. [1 Timothy 2:12]

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. [2 Peter 3:16]

Once again, as we tackle yet another controversial Bible topic, let's have the Bible itself remind us of how exactly we are to study God's word with the purposes of knowing the truth.