by cjbartels.com | Sep 23, 2025 | BOOK – If You Are in the Armed Forces, This Is What The Bible Says About War, Obedience, and Conscience |
The Lie One of the most common ideas soldiers absorb—often without ever being told directly—is that Christianity and military service stand on opposite moral ground. Christianity, they are told, is about love, gentleness, forgiveness, and peace. Soldiering, by...
by cjbartels.com | Sep 22, 2025 | BOOK – If You Are in the Armed Forces, This Is What The Bible Says About War, Obedience, and Conscience |
The Bible And Armed Service I did not grow up reading the Bible. I grew up hearing about it. Like many soldiers, my understanding of Christianity came mostly through sermons, conversations, and cultural assumptions rather than through sustained, careful reading of...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 29, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Why “Judge Not” Is Quoted but Rarely Understood There are few sentences in the Bible that travel as widely as “Judge not.” You can hear it in coffee shops, online debates, family gatherings, and even from people who would never claim to believe anything else Scripture...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 27, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Judging vs. Passing Judgment: The Difference We Keep Missing If the confusion surrounding “judge not” begins with language, it grows because two very different actions travel under the same word. We use the single term “judging” to describe both the healthy act of...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 24, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
The Speck and the Log: Why Hypocrisy Ruins Judgment Few images in Scripture are as disarming as Jesus’ picture of a man with a plank sticking out of his eye trying to perform delicate eye surgery on someone else. It is intentionally ridiculous. You can almost see the...
