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Buffet Bodies and New Year’s Resolutions – Part 2
Last week I wrote about the rigors of spiritual discipline and the determination it takes to go beyond monotonous, stale Christianity into the deeper things of God.
In spite of all this…
When you look back over your life personally, even just over the past year, can you pinpoint a time when God failed you?
Buffet Bodies and New Year’s Resolutions
If you are a believer on the Lord Jesus Christ, there are some spiritual disciplines that must be in place. And there are means by which you can spiritually “buffet your body” in order to grow deeper in your walk with God.
So be good for goodness’ sake!
Some days it seems easier than others to be good, doesn’t it? This begins from the moment of our first breath. We don’t always feel like being or doing good!
The Dominion of Light
Perhaps you find yourself today in a less than idyllic holiday season, one that is wrought with pain, struggle, and what feels or seems like outer darkness. The songs are sung all about you of Hope and Joy, fun-filled times with family, and “home for the holidays”. But you face darkness.
Roots: Bitter or Sweet? Part 2
I posed the question last week: So how do we “tidy up” and rid ourselves (1 Peter 2:1) of the bitterness and unforgiveness that can rot our spirits and wreak havoc on those about us? Let’s continue our “dig” into the roots of the heart as we look back into the verse I’ve cited above from Hebrews 12.
Roots: Bitter or Sweet?
All of us from time to time can go along in life, thinking we are free and clear of such evil roots, and then along comes a situation that will bring something quite nasty to the surface…seemingly out of nowhere! And our first reaction is to dismiss it and say “I didn’t really mean that” or “I don’t really feel that way”.
Prayers Without Forgiveness
Jesus’s instructions did not stop there with the simple faith and absence of doubt. He went on to remind His followers that these basic elements would only be met for the heart full of forgiveness.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Who do you respect the most in your circle of friends or family? Do you have someone you call when you find yourself in a desperate situation or a time of struggle in decision making? Have you empowered someone to speak truth to you, even if it hurts a little?
The ‘Next’ Mentality
Acts 17:32-34: 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them. Find…
Second Best or God’s Best?
Joshua 1: 1-9, 13: “1 After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: 2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I…
