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Here are some helpful thoughts on gossip from Ray Ortlund: What is gossip? It is not necessarily false information. Slander is false. Gossip might include true information, and maybe that’s why gossip doesn’t always feel sinful. What makes it sin is, first and foremost, that God says it’s sin. But gossip spreads what can include accurate [ READ MORE ]
We’ve focused for quite a while on having biblical and healthy relationships with others created in God’s image. Now we are going to turn and look at means to have a healthy and biblical relationship with God, Himself. We are going to do this through studying the Spiritual Disciplines. Now, I say “discipline,” and you have [ READ MORE ]
“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 ]
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 ]
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 ]