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...
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...
