The Bible and Modesty: Modesty Is About Putting on Christ (Part 4)
Editor’s Note: For Part 1 in this series on the Bible and modesty (“Where Modesty Starts”), click here. For Part 2 (“It’s About More Than Personal Choices”), click here. For Part 3 (“Modesty Is Not About Protecting Corruption”), click here. So here is the crux of this conversation. The clarity I was looking for. The thing I […]
The Bible and Modesty: Modesty Is Not About Protecting Corruption (Part 3)
Editor’s Note: For Part 1 in this series on the Bible and modesty (“Where Modesty Starts”), click here. For Part 2 (“It’s About More Than Personal Choices”), click here. I listened to someone give a talk on modesty recently, and one of their main points in favor of dressing modestly (again, directed towards women) was that […]
The Bible and Modesty: It’s About More Than Personal Choices (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: For Part 1 in this series on the Bible and modesty (“Where Modesty Starts”), click here. Have you ever seen someone do something really stupid, and then say, “Well, it’s a free country”? Or see someone make a decision that harms another person, but do so in the name of their “personal choice,” […]
The Bible and Modesty: Where Modesty Starts (Part 1)
In the first part of this series on the Bible and modesty, I first want to say a special thanks to all of the men and women who did the Lord’s work of trying to train me up as a child, a teenager, and a 20-something to walk in the ways of Jesus. In this […]
Depending on Jesus
“Man–despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments–owes his existence to a six- inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” —Paul Harvey Do you ever find yourself caught in a tug of war between dependence on God and self-sufficiency? Maybe you’re there now. You know it is God who has […]
50+ Bible Verses About Modesty
The word “modest” is not prevalent in the Bible (most English versions of the Bible translate the original Greek to “modesty” twice or less!), but the concept of it is most definitely present. And each time the concept of modesty is taught, the core issue at hand is the posture of a person’s heart—and whether […]
