Month: January 2022

When the Bible talks about feelings, it talks not about the heart but the bowels—the guts. It talks about the ‘bowels (feelings) of compassion’. The Bible calls the bowels the seat of the emotions. Where do people get ulcers—on the heart? No—in the gut, where so much emotion is centered. What the scriptures are talking …

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Christianity is (chara) joyful. The word refers to a deep-seated attitude and confidence toward life that only a Christian, who knows that God is sovereign, can have. Such joy isn’t dependent upon favorable happenings in life,… To view the Christian life as a sombre, serious, miserable existence—as some have in the past and some do …

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