Spiritual Answers For The Real World
The ability to distinguish between what I want and what I really need is one of the most valuable spiritual tools a Christian has to work with. It is a valuable tool because for most people it holds the key to gratitude, which is the attitude that makes personal peace possible. The Bible talks about [...]
Everyday of our lives we experience the events of our lives. The events range from the profound to the mundane. Events involve all of the people we encounter, the places we go and the things we think we have to have. It is in responding to the events of our lives that the sins of [...]
During crucifixion, as gravity pulled the body down, the natural response of the victim would be to push the body up and produce respiratory relief. To prevent that, the feet were also nailed to the cross and the legs of the victim were broken at some point. Pushing up to relieve the respiratory distress became [...]
Self righteousness involves making judgments about what other people need to do, based on decisions we made for ourselves. Because something was good for us, we righteously believe others need it too. Our good becomes another man’s duty! I quite smoking, therefore all smokers should be forced, intimidated and coerced into becoming like me. I [...]
Oh my goodness! How can self confidence be a sin? Well, self confidence is a sin because Jesus said we are incapable of doing anything apart from Him. The sin of self confidence is the sin of pride and an inflated ego. Self confidence from the sin perspective involves believing we are superior and better [...]
There are seven specific sins of self that are at the root of all that God wants us to crucify in our lives. The complete removal of these self-sins is the objective work of the Holy Spirit in the life of every believer. It is the way God goes about conforming us to the image [...]
There is no question that the New Testament teaches a doctrine of being filled with the Holy Spirit and the filling is something that happens throughout the earthly life of a Christian. The filling of the Spirit has nothing to do with being “more saved” but it has everything to do with the extent that [...]
Recently a man who is very close to me said, “I’m a Christian, but I’m not one of those ‘over the top’ Christians.” I asked him what that meant and he went on to say that there were things he enjoyed doing and he didn’t want to stop doing them. Drinking was one of those [...]
Are you willing to look deep within and ask God to show you what is really going on in your heart? Do you really have the peace of God? Do you love others as God would have you love them? Do you have marital difficulty and conflict? Do you struggle with some kind of addiction? [...]
Factually, there are few churches and congregations in America that are not carnal in many respects. Even churches who are mighty in support of missions and conduct evangelical outreaches are frequently carnal to the core. They are impressed by their own works and their own efforts. They fail the test of love and they are [...]
In the most simple terms, in conforming us to the image of Christ, God’s purpose is to drive out the carnal motives that prevent us from being able to love. If you are not aware of this reality about what God is really trying to do with you, then you are not cooperating with Him [...]
Does Not Brag – Anytime we talk about ourselves and proclaim the goodness of something we have done we are bragging. Even if we do so with false humility and a self-deprecating manner, it is still bragging. A Christian being conformed into the image of Jesus knows their life is none of their business and [...]
Godly patience involves having the quality of enduring problems without complaint and walking through them without being fretful or worrying. Patience requires that we sustain our afflictions with fortitude, calmness and submission to the will of God. Patience means that we live each day in the will of God. We do not embrace or concern [...]
It is a simple matter for any believer to evaluate how well their spiritual growth progressing. All that is required is an honest evaluation about the ability to love. If we are cooperating with God in the process of becoming more and more like Jesus we will begin to see change in the deepest, most [...]
Inability to Love - The Corinthians did not know how to love as God expected them to love. In the 13th chapter Paul gave them the greatest definition of Godly love that has ever been penned. He defined love by describing what love is not and by describing what love does. A sobering fact is [...]
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