Spiritual Answers For The Real World
The natural world is a system based on cause and effect. Time is composed of events and behind each event there is always a direct cause that makes the event possible. This law of cause and effect involves a principle of dependency; everything that happens is dependent upon something else happening first. If the thing [...]
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 [...]
If we are to take thoughts captive that are not pleasing to God we have to be capable of identifying and judging them. This judgment is enabled and made possible by conviction of the Holy Spirit coupled with the truth of scripture. Consider this:
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 [...]
The third step in the crucifixion of Christ was the fixing of Jesus’ hands to cross with spikes. Everything up to this point had been done to prepare Jesus for death. The fixing of the hands began the actual execution. The hands were rendered powerless and left the body suspended in a way that [...]
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:
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 [...]
Kindness – Many Christians believe they are kind because they think nice thoughts about others and pray for them. They think kindness is an attitude. While kindness does involve a certain disposition, it is a disposition that produces action. Kindness is a temperament or disposition which delights in contributing to the needs of others. Kindness [...]
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