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 [...]
God is fearless and perfectly unselfish. There is no threat to the “self” of God and that is the source of his perfect righteousness. It is also the prerequisite for perfect love. God is love because God is perfectly fearless and unselfish. This enables Him to love completely in total abandon, holding nothing back. [...]
What is the fundamental issue or condition that produces righteousness in God that human beings are unable to duplicate, no matter how hard they try. What is it that is inherent in God, that people can’t match on their best day or their best moment.
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 most important word in the Bible may be righteousness. When you see the righteousness word in the Bible as it is attributed to God, it is usually describing God’s character, or His nature, or His actions, or His attitude. And, you usually find it used in conjunction with three other words: love, justice and [...]
Human beings are biological creatures living in a natural world. We know that is the truth. Does man also have a spiritual dimension? Jesus said we do. Spirituality is a supernatural subject, just like eternity. At the root of eternity and spirituality is a common probability: The existence of God. The existence of God is [...]
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 [...]
It is impossible to grow spiritually unless we learn to pray in accordance with God’s will. Christianity is a relationship and relationships require personal communication. The Spirit of Christ supernaturally lives within every believer and He desires that we communicate with Him. We communicate with Him by prayer. It is our prayer that the Lord [...]
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 [...]
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought [...]
The Beating The crucifixion of Jesus began with a beating – a scourging of unbelievable intensity. The purpose of scourging was to weaken the body in preparation for actual crucifixion. The intensity of the beating was dependent on the particular mood and disposition of those charged with performing it. In the beating and scourging of [...]
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:
Hostility toward God is rebellion against God. Rebellion against God is sin. That is the true nature of self-sin and that is why God is working all things together in the life of a believer to crucify self. These sins of self are the sins that matter because they are the sins that prevent us [...]
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 [...]
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