“Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you …
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
“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 …
“…in this small act of dying, I loved my wife differently. I realized that in Philemon and elsewhere, Paul was re-enacting the gospel, Jesus death for us. The word for means the weight of our sins comes on Jesus. Paul uses for when he defines the gospel: “The Lord Jesus…gave himself for our sins.” (Galatians …
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