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Don’t forget that we have our initial meeting for this fall’s FOCUS reading group this Sunday at 5:30 in the Youth Room. The books are provided at no cost to you (thanks Sam!). Share and Enjoy: [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
In the last post, I argued that our desire should be for God above all other things. Therefore, stuff isn’t bad insofar as it doesn’t obstruct our worship of God. But when stuff does become the object of our affections, and thus it takes the place of our desire for God, we have a problem. At [ READ MORE ]
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the [ READ MORE ]
A question that we must ask of ourselves from time to time is this: Am I a passive consumer of the world? Many of us would of course say, “No!” But, if we were to sit down and examine what we allow into our minds, and then into our hearts, our conscience would be sadly [ READ MORE ]
“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:7-8 [ READ MORE ]