Archive for February, 2009
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A good word from Dr. Piper… HT: Z Share and Enjoy: [ READ MORE ]
In their book Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim Lane and Paul David Tripp point out ways that church were told to serve one another: Be devoted to one another (Romans 12:10) Honor one another (Romans 12:10) – treat others with the value that God has given them Accept one another (Romans 15:7) – James 2:1-13 also deals [ READ MORE ]
In John 13, we see a picture of Christ’s service to His disciples. This group of men were not deserving of His serving them. One of them, Judas, has already had the betrayal of Jesus demonically on his mind. Yet Jesus served them anyway “as an example, that you also should do just as I have [ READ MORE ]
The reason that many of our relationships have been poor or even failed is that we focus WAY TOO MUCH on ourselves. We see ourselves as being overly important, to a dangerous degree. We cannot call ourselves “Christian” and live this way. Consider Christ as portrayed in Philippians 2:3-11: “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in [ READ MORE ]
Worldliness. We’ve been examining the effects of the world on believers for the past two months. Now at the end, you may find yourself thinking, “if the world is all around me, how can I keep from indulging in it!?” This is a good question. But the answer comes not in the amount of the [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a helpful, clear quote from John Thomas at Boundless.org on the nature of true repentance: True repentance bears fruit [Matthew 3:8], and looks like this: it offers nothing to God but spiritual poverty and a desperate heart desiring to change. It results in humility, gratitude, and a deep compassion for others who have or who [ READ MORE ]
In thinking through the chapter, “God, My Heart, and Clothes,” I think it is important to remember that the world is telling us what its version of beauty is, a false, temporal, unreal beauty. Is it, then, really beauty? Check out this video from the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Share and Enjoy: [ READ MORE ]
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Gavin Ortlund has some helpful observations of what makes a good listener: 1) Good listeners consider a person’s statements in relation to their presuppositions (as much as possible). They are willing to ask the question “how does this make sense to them?” and genuinely seek an answer to that question in evaluating another person’s opinion. 2) Good [ READ MORE ]