Praying Like Hypocrites & Heathens It is notable that before Jesus taught on prayer that he first pointed out to his followers how not to pray: “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they …
What a wonderful calling that we have as fathers! As we follow the lead of our heavenly Father our children abide in the realm of blessing where instruction, example, discipline, grace, laughter, forgiveness, and love are constants. We are never off the clock and always on duty. We have a responsibility that both weighs on …
“The God of Israel, incarnate in Jesus Christ, is disdainful of the kinds of social or symbolic capital that we consider to be important, and always has been: he draws near to those whom we naturally consider to be marginal or even contemptible and elects them to involvement in his work of salvation. In his …
“Many of the things that we consider to be good and necessary expressions of Christian thought and practice are actually products of our evangelical culture. In some cases, these may not be problematic until they are elevated into the position of idols., functioning as surrogates for the real presence of God, which disturbs and disrupts …
We’re going back through the first nine chapters of Proverbs investigating how wisdom is ‘given’ to us. Granted, the fear of the Lord is where we must start, and remain, but what instructions, steps, practices follow to insure that we are becoming wise?
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then …
“…the priority of the daily bread and butter of the self-pleasing life–that is what takes us into the world, the arena in which Christ’s Lordship is not recognised and where his writ does not run.” The Message of James – J.A. Moyter
“If we are to live for Him in the world, there is a constant issue of commitment, loyalty, to be faced: are we His or are we not? Are we His, not by virtue of a past decision allowed to grow stale, but in the daily pressure of the often small things by which our …
“He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around the globe.” From Knowing God by J.I. Packer
“Reconciliation is a change of relationship between persons (God and man; man and man) that involves at least three elements: (1) confession of sins to God and to any others who have been offended; (2) forgiveness by God and by the one who has been offended; (3) the establishment of a new relationship between offender …
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