by cjbartels.com | Aug 21, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Testing Everything: Why Christians Must Still Discern One of the quiet assumptions of our age is that love requires silence. If you truly care about people, we are told, you will not question their choices, beliefs, or values. You will celebrate them. You will affirm...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 19, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
When Questions Feel Like Attacks: Questions As Hostile We live in a time when questions often sound louder than answers. Not because they are shouted, but because they are immediately treated as hostile. Simply asking, “How do you know that?” or “What do you mean by...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 17, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Labels, Flags, and Yard Signs: When Symbols Become Sentences We live in a time when symbols do much of our thinking for us. A yard sign, a bumper sticker, a flag on a truck, a rainbow decal, a hat, a post shared online—without a word spoken, entire conclusions form in...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 15, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Crowd Judgment: When Outrage Becomes Entertainment We have always judged one another. What is new in our generation is the speed, scale, and permanence with which judgment travels. A comment once spoken in a living room can now be heard around the world in a matter of...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 12, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Judging Inside vs. Outside the Church: Aiming Carefully One of the most surprising things Scripture says about judgment is not that Christians must avoid it, but that Christians must aim it carefully. Much damage has been done because believers reversed the direction...
