Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

The Writer’s Desert : A Letter From Jim

Dear CCW family, It is a joy to write to you this Christmas/New Year time. All of us here wish you the best of New Years, filled with Jesus. “To live is Christ” as Paul reminded us. That kind of year has to be worthwhile to live out. This may be the most useful year for Christ of your entire life. Can you say it will not be? Among our team, we who write regularly as well as speak often…

Some Comments on the Wretched Man in Romans 7

Romans 7:13-25 is a difficult passage, but many concerns vanish when chapters 6 and 7 are analyzed together. Four questions are answered that arise in the Jewish mind related to grace and Law (Rom 5:20-21). This is in a section principally addressed to Jew-born believers, but not without benefits for the Gentile believer. Each of the questions are answered by “absolutely not!”. Here they are: 1. Are we to continue in sin that grace may increase? Absolutely not!….Paul uses the…

Cremation or Burial? (with “Reducing the Cost of Funerals”)

There is no sin in cremation, that is for sure. And there is no inability on God’s part to raise a cremated body from the dead. But is cremation, a practice most often seen in Eastern religions, the best for the believer in Christ? It is clarifying to note that burial was God’s preferred method of disposing of the body of Moses. God had the power to cremate Moses’ body on the spot, but rather, this gentle and loving phrase…