We need not fear that in seeking God only we may narrow our lives or restrict the motions of our expanding hearts. The opposite is true. We can well afford to make God our All, to concentrate, to sacrifice the many for the One. The author of the quaint old English classic, The Cloud of […]
The Biblical Christian Life
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 […]
wise love in action
Wise counseling is essentially a way of loving another person well. It is a way of speaking what is true and constructive into this person’s life right now. Good counseling is essentially wise love in action. David Powlison, Speaking Truth in Love, p. 5-6.
Freedom From Sinful Desires
There has been a lot of talk recently about homosexual men living godly Christian lives. They claim to do this by living celibate lives. You can read about a book written on this subject here. I will be the first to acknowledge that I might be missing something here, but I don’t understand how a […]
taste and know
“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience, they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of […]
Parish Bible Studies Starting Again
“Theologian Wayne Grudem provides a fine, concise definition of this critical doctrine: “Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives.”3 That’s the goal of the Christian life, isn’t it? Increasing freedom from sin and increasing resemblance to Jesus. […]
The Biblical way of Making Choices
Hi, Somebody has asked me how God answers prayers. For example, when we pray because we do not know what decision to make, in what way can God show us what we should do? Jane Hi Jane, First, if the Bible tells us what decision to make, we do what it tells us. For example the […]
Knowing Him Better
“Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they had found Him the finding was all the sweeter for […]