Spiritual Answers For The Real World
Let us suppose I have several children. I love them equally. None of them are perfect, but I love them anyway. They are all fathered by me and have my genes and my blood. My desire is that they love each other as much as I love them, but they have problems with each other [...]
The Christian idea that humans are cut off from God because of being inherently unrighteous is the part of the Christian message that is most unpopular. Because many people embrace the idea that variable truth is possible, they reject the proposition of being unrighteous and justify the decision by comparing themselves to themselves.
The Bible reveals that sin is at the very center of the nature of human beings and is a terminal condition that results in spiritual death and separation from God. It is this revelation of the nature of sin that makes up the “bad news” portion of the Hebrew revelation we know as The Old [...]
Human opinions are largely the result of thinking and reasoning. It is a natural process performed by a biological brain trapped in a time-driven perspective. When we think, we take stock of certain facts, relate them, and reach conclusions about the past, present and future. Fear, however, throws a monkey-wrench into this otherwise rational process.
If there is any area where the tendency to develop strong presuppositions exists it is theology, because theology involves supernatural realms that cannot be detected with the five senses. Thinking in terms of the supernatural opens the mind to new and unfamiliar thoughts that produce fear of the unknown. The possibility of a supernatural, moral [...]
During most of my young life I believed I wasn’t afraid of anything. When I finally identified with my fear it happened in a very simple way. A man who had faced fear, told me how it felt. He described fear as a sense of impending doom, a sense that something bad was about to [...]
When we are not living our lives in accordance with God’s will and we are living for self in the flesh, we experience the spiritual equivalent of a beating. That beating is a sign to us that we are not living as God wants us to live and we are suffering the consequences of disobedience! [...]
People divorce when they become unhappy in their marriages and are unwilling or unable to work through their difficulties and resolve them. I don’t want to be accused of being a hypocrite on this subject, so I acknowledge that I have been divorced too. I can speak on the subject with experience. I can also [...]
The Bible promises much to Christians. It promises a peace that passes understanding. It promises that God will work all things together for good in our lives. It promises love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self control to those who crucify the fleshly desires of their heart. The Bible promises grace to all [...]
The things we believe to be true are the engine of our thought life. Our thought life is the ground on which God engages us and He commands that we take every thought captive that is not pleasing to Him. God wants to replace our thought with His thought. He wants to exchange the mind [...]
Jesus’ crucifixion was an event, but it was also a process. Crucifixion was a long ordeal and Jesus moved through five stages or steps in the process of being executed. I believe spiritual truth can be seen in each step of His crucifixion and we can use that truth to better understand how to crucify [...]
The Bible only offers one prescription for the problems presented in the seven deadly sins of self and that prescription is the death of self! The Apostle Paul presents the issue clearly in his letter to the Galatians:
As long as we continue to believe that we can define truth, define God and define right and wrong we will be trapped in self love, self seeking and the other deadly sins of self. The Three Holy Lies are Satan’s most powerful tool of deception and a major barrier that blocks Christians from being [...]
When Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they acquired the awareness of right and wrong. They did not learn how to discern the truth of right and wrong, but they became aware that the two conditions existed. All of Adam and Eve’s descendents have been struggling with [...]
When people can’t get what they want, or feel they have been denied something they were entitled to receive, self pity is the next step. In self love we always want a good outcome and the best for ourselves. When it doesn’t happen we are tempted to indulge in self pity. Self pity opens the [...]
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