Sunday’s Coming

The Psalm 19 test (Psalm 19)

How do we wade through the vast morass of different teachings and beliefs about the God of the Bible?

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What are God’s timeless instructions for humanity? Does such a thing exist? And if so, how do we understand these instructions in our current times and places? Different Christians—and different streams of Christianity—carry so many different conceptions of what God’s will is and how to live it out. How do we wade through the vast morass of different teachings and beliefs, all of them claiming to serve the God revealed in the Bible?