Knowing What’s True

“You must not make a covenant with them or their gods. They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

One of the best and most memorable ideas about friendship I’ve ever heard is that our friends determine the direction and quality of our lives. If we spend all our time with people who discourage us and point us in the wrong direction, our lives will soon show the evidence of this and it won’t be good. Thankfully, the opposite is true as well. As God was preparing the people for the journey that lay ahead of them, He wanted them to know that this same basic idea applied to them too. Let’s talk about what’s going on here and what we should make of it.

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This past Sunday we kicked off a brand new teaching series at FBCO called, Reasons to Believe. For the next several weeks we are going to tackle some common objections to the Christian faith, try to turn them on their heads, and show why, rather than offering reasons to not believe, they actually offer us very good reasons to embrace the Christian faith with even more tenacity than before. This won’t necessarily be an easy journey, but it will be a good one. I hope you’ll come along for the entire ride because in the end, we’ll see that having a relationship with Jesus is the most important reason to believe. In this first part, we face head-on the notion that Christianity’s claim to be the exclusive pathway to truth and life isn’t nearly so arrogant as we are often taught.

Knowing What’s True

There’s an old story about a man on a quest for truth. He wanted to know what was true and what was not so that he could dedicate his life to the truth. His search eventually led him to seek out an obscure guru who was rumored to have spent much of his life pondering the question of truth. As a result he was considered most wise on this particular topic. When the man finally found the wise, old guru he posed his question to him: “How can I know what’s true and what’s not true?” Read the rest…

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Digging in Deeper: Exodus 23:32-33

Knowing What’s True