The following are areas of the Christian walk the normal Christian is participating in. When Jesus said, “let him deny himself, and take up your cross daily, and follow me” (Lk 9:23), this is what he was talking about. There is a temptation to read this list and turn it into a series of academic […]
How do you read the Bible for your own benefit, but also with an aim to bless and encourage others? The first thing I try to do is to remember that Bible study isn’t an academic exercise. It shouldn’t be something I do because I need to read my Bible every day or I’ll go to Hell […]
Counseling sounds like something the professionals do, but how should a Christian think about the relationship between their daily Bible reading and how it is equipping them to counsel those in their life? Right now our church and others are doing what is called the Bible Reading Challenge. The purpose of this program is to help people get into […]
Yesterday I got all fired up about a Christian writing a psychological article on a Biblical Counseling web site. I could hardly contain myself and I may have skipped a few steps for some. I tried to tone it down by asking questions and saying very little. I thought I would go back today and […]
If a fellow is going to try to love his wife as Christ loved the church, he first needs to orient himself to who he is in the universe and who he is with God in the universe. Without this proper orientation, he will be making things up and flying by the seat of his […]
Why Do I Feel Guilty/ CRF talk 11-7-16 Introduction: People feel guilty for all kinds of things: for speeding (those aren’t speed suggestion signs), for not remembering their father’s birthday, for not cleaning up their rooms, for not reading all the required reading for a course, when they said they did; the list can go […]
God I was in a classroom in college, listening to a debate between a local pastor and a profligate philosophy professor. After a particularly exciting exchange between them, the professor finally said, “What makes you so confident in what you are saying about God and the things of God?” The pastor slowly stood up, and […]
Holy Scriptures The Scriptures are clear that man has a certain amount of knowledge about God and a kind of knowledge about God which comes from man’s observation of the natural world (Rom. 1:18-20). He also knows the difference between right and wrong because God has written that information on his heart (Rom. 2:15). What […]
Question: So even though Judas betrayed Jesus and caused him to be crucified, he still gets to be one of the foundations of the Bride of Christ? There are several possible answers to this question. The first part is that Judas was not an apostle, after he betrayed Jesus and killed himself. He is called […]
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