The way we play with sin is very interesting. Of course we love our sin, but God doesn’t. We want God’s favor, but he won’t play with us as long as we continue in our sin. So we rename it. Instead of calling it bitterness, we call it our Irishness coming out. Instead of calling […]
Freedom From Sinful Desires Pt. 2
About one of my previous posts, Valerie Kyriosity asked: What if they changed the word “desire” to “attraction,” or even to “temptation”? And what if it were clear that it was an attraction or temptation that they were committed to vigorously resisting? Good question Valerie. The words you suggest are all synonyms of the […]
An Inception
“Being made in His [God’s] image we have within us the capacity to know Him. In our sins we lack only the power. The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which […]
Seek Him
“Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!” (Psa 119:1-3).
Specialized Discipleship
“Our goal is to be a church of biblical counseling—we want these truths to permeate everything we do….Call it counseling; call it specialized discipleship. It doesn’t matter. We want to be a progressive sanctification machine, a discipleship factory. We want people growing and changing where god’s Word and Sprit make each of us more like […]
Refined Sins
“The message should be clear. God is grieved over our “refined” sins just as He is grieved over sexual immorality or dishonesty. I am not suggesting that being irritable at one’s spouse is as serious as something like adultery. I am saying that being irritable at one’s spouse is sin, and that all sin grieves […]
This Is Life Eternal
“All social intercourse between human beings is a response of personality to personality, grading upward from the most casual brush between man and man to the fullest, most intimate communion of which the human soul is capable. Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the Creating […]
When There Is Nowhere Else To Go
“My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me” (Psa 63:8).
A Church of Biblical Counseling
“I love biblical counseling, but we can’t see it as a ministry of a few people to a few “unhealthy” people. Biblical counseling is the calling of all of God’s people all of the time because we are all striving to grow in Christ all the time.” “Does that mean we shouldn’t launch local church […]