In my circles, knowing Theology often trumps one’s knowledge of the Bible. What others have construed or constructed out of the Holy Scriptures is more known and therefore more valued than understanding the actual, sacred text—and it shows. When I ask people who have been attending church for years, 10, 20, 30+ years, how many …
Kissing is a glorious but scary prospect. This attraction action has all the trappings of love, but love of whom? The pressing of lips is passionate and intimate. Each kiss has meaning, backstory, and agenda. So then, the most important question regarding the first kiss and then every kiss afterwards is this: Was a kiss …
“Do you have Mens Meetings in your church?” The question came from my host. He was sitting at the other end of the table. He had to shout because the house was filled with families from their church; parents and children all talking, eating, and playing. A glorious cacophony. There had been other questions from …
Sad. Tragic rather, that our label has been appropriated by so many that don’t care what the Bible defines as a true believer and follower of Jesus Christ. If you are looking for a church that believes that what the Bible teaches is a black & white understanding of reality and that real Christians are …
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 …
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 …
First, let us understand plainly that the biblical doctrine of the inherency of the Scriptures has important implications for counseling. The Christian counselor has a book that is the very Word of the living God, written in the styles of the individual writers, who (through the superintendence of the Holy Spirit) were kept free from …
Man’s relationship to God, then, was to be a growing one. In the garden he had only begun to enter into the possibilities and potentialities of human existence. These all lay before him. Further development of knowledge, experience, etc., was anticipated in such commands as “be fruitful and multiply” and “subdue the earth.” How that …
Christians confuse hypocrisy with feelings. I get out of bed every morning against contrary feelings. That does not make the act hypocritical. I would be hypocritical only if I pretend that I enjoy getting up. Jay Adams ~ The Christian Counselor’s Manual
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