by cjbartels.com | Aug 11, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Restoring, Not Crushing: How Truth and Mercy Work Together If all we ever said about judgment was what can go wrong with it, we might conclude that the safest course is silence. Better to say nothing than to risk hypocrisy, condemnation, or pride. But Scripture never...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 9, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Judging Ourselves: Conviction Without Self-Condemnation It is easy to speak about judgment as something that happens “out there,” between us and other people. But Scripture will not let us stay outside ourselves for long. At some point the question becomes...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 7, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
The Final Judgment: Why God’s Judgment Is Good News For many people, the phrase “final judgment” evokes only fear. It conjures images of scales, books, and a courtroom where every failure is replayed in detail. Others avoid the subject entirely, as if silence could...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 6, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Jesus the Judge and Friend of Sinners: Not Just Principles Alone If we want to know what judgment is meant to look like, we cannot stop with principles alone. We have to look at a person. Scripture does not simply give us definitions of justice and mercy; it gives us...
by cjbartels.com | Aug 4, 2025 | BOOK – If You Have Ever Passed Judgment, Was It Within the Limits of Scripture? |
Learning to See as God Sees If judgment were simple, a book would not need to exist (book). We feel instinctively that something is wrong with the way judgment so often works in our lives, our communities, our churches, and our world. At the same time, we sense that...
