Archive for March, 2009
“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish [ READ MORE ]
This past Wednesday, we talked about how we should view and use our time as Christians. The biblical picture of our time is much different than the worlds, as we’ll see in the coming posts. Here are a couple of videos (with lyrics below them) that argue the “culture’s” case: Time – Pink Floyd Ticking away the [ READ MORE ]
In 2 Corinthians 8, Paul gave the Corinthian church two examples of how we as Christians are to give, and these examples are just as relevant for us today as it was for them two millennia ago. The two examples are the giving of the Macedonian Christians, and the giving of Jesus. The Giving of [ READ MORE ]
Since we’ve been talking about relationships, we’ve seen that if we supplant God as our king, and install ourselves as supreme ruler, that we will ALWAYS have bad relationships. We will use every means at our disposal to serve us, even when we try to make it look as though we’re being giving and kind to [ READ MORE ]
Learning to enjoy the world because it is God’s creation and tells us about Him, and then learning to use the creation in ways that honor Him can give joy and fruitfulness to our lives in a way that the “world” cannot. But if we stop at this point, there is a gaping problem with [ READ MORE ]
In the last post, we looked at how to Enjoy the World; that matter is good, created by God for our good and His glory. This post will delve more into, now that we’ve established that world can be good and glorifying, what do we do with it? We engage it. Task 2: Engage the World We [ READ MORE ]
In our study on Worldliness, with the help of C. J. Mahaney, Jeff Purswell, Dave Harvey, Craig Cabaniss, and Bob Kauflin, we have identified specific ways that the world tries to pry our eyes off of King Jesus, and put them instead on lesser things – things of this world. We’ve noted over and [ READ MORE ]