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How to Know God’s Will Part 2
What this means is that we cannot take a passive approach to do God’s will in this area. We have to make deliberate choices to avoid any kind of immorality.
How to Know God’s Will, Part 1
God’s Word provides instructions for core aspects of our lives. I am going to write a few posts on what the Bible tells us explicitly about God’s will for us.
How to Love God with Your Mind
Jesus calls us to have childlike faith. He did not call us to childish thinking. As Moreland said, “A flabby mind is no badge of spiritual honor.” Jesus knew his Bible well, and he knew God well. We should all want to be like Jesus. The reason that God works all things together for good, good which we might not see in this life, is “to be conformed to the image of his son” (Rom 8:29-30).
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How Did You Spend Your Holy Saturday?
The disaster of our own Good Friday and the despair of our own Holy Saturday will one day be undone. In the mess that life often throws at us, we can have a firm confidence, that our disaster will not have the last word. God will. No matter how much life might hurt right now, God will make all things new.
Crying out to a Hidden, Mysterious God
We don’t get to know God’s mind. If we look at the cross, we can know that God loved us enough to suffer terribly in our place. When we end a prayer with ”in Jesus’ name,” we are pointing to the mystery of all that God has done for us. As humans, we want to know it all. We don’t and must surrender to the One who does.
Book review: Forty Days of Decrease by Alicia Britt Chole
“Approaching a fresh endeavor can be both energizing and stressful. New is inspiring. New is enlightening. And new is, oddly enough, a reminder of what is now old. When fresh beginnings are stalked by the memories of stale endings, a sickly substance can steal our strength: regret. Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope, because regret is a form of self-punishment. Whereas hindsight helps us learn from the past, regret beats us up with the past.”
Is God a Therapist or Vending Machine?
God is Not a Human Construct There are some ideas out there in popular Christian books, music, sermons, and more that God is a Divine therapist and a cosmic vending machine. What does that mean? Divine Therapist? The Bible promises peace to the one whose mind is set...
Imitating Mary’s Obedience to Her Calling
God called Mary to an Important Task Artistic Impression of Jesus' Mother It’s possible to read the story of Jesus’ virginal conception in Luke 1 and Matthew 1 and see Mary as a passive participant, but that would be wrong. If we look closely at what Gabriel has to...
Welcome Back
Greetings, Everyone! I've been gone for a while. I retired last May and began packing to move and looking for a place to retire to. I've been working for over eighteen months translating, Luke, Acts, and Romans for the New Tyndale Version. That has kept me busy almost...
