This article discusses our emotions — how they are neither good nor bad in themselves, but rather in how we handle them. Thus, our emotions must be filtered through God’s Word at all times. From Randy Alcorn and Eternal Perspectives Ministries………………..
Wow. This is just an excellent and most helpful article on a topic that probably about 95% of us can use some help with — thinking about our past in godly and constructive ways. From biblical counselor Rick Thomas at RickThomas.net…………………..
This article talks about one of the greatest statements of faith in all of Scripture. This is worth a read! From Crosswalk.com…………..
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/what-job-mean-my-redeemer-lives.html
This article is encouraging all believers to really be open to God and all that He is saying to them in and through His Word when they are reading and studying the Bible. A very helpful and practical read! From the LOGOS Blog………………….
This article provides a fairly in-depth look at five reasons why Jesus chose to get baptized by John in the River Jordan. “The echoes of Jesus’s baptism reverberated through his life, and still resound through the world to this day. For his baptism is an emblem of his entire incarnate work of offering himself perfectly to his Father and gathering us into his own consecration and obedience.” From Desiring God………………………..
This article from Knowable Word serves as a reminder to take promises in the Bible within their proper context. For example, “God will give you the desires of your heart.” But that is only part of the verse (Psalm 37:4). From Knowable Word……………..
In this beautiful article from Randy Alcorn, he talks about what an everyday believer would look like if he or she was to be considered a “cross-bearer” or “cross-carrier.” And the answer turns out to be more about little everyday sacrifices made willingly and gladly. From Eternal Perspectives Ministries…………….
At this point, the series begins to look at how individual theologians and church leaders viewed spiritual adoption. First up is John Calvin. From Things Above Us……………
This is a continuation of a series of articles on our adoption into God’s family that we started last month, and now we pick back up. In this article, we see how systematic theology handles the topic of spiritual adoption From Things Above Us………….
“But if I am to be someone’s apprentice, there is one absolutely essential condition. I must be with that person. This is true of the student-teacher relationship in all generality. And it is precisely what it meant to follow Jesus when he was here in human form. To follow him meant, in the first place, to be with him.”
“If I am Jesus’ disciple that means I am with him to learn from him how to be like him. To take cases from ordinary life, a child learning to multiply and divide numbers is an apprentice to its teacher. Children are with their teachers, learning from them how to be like them in a certain respect—similarly for a student of the piano or voice, of the Spanish language, of tennis, and so forth. The “being-with,” by watching and by hearing, is an absolute necessity. . . .”
“God can, of course, make himself present to the human mind in any way he chooses. But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate: thus the absolute centrality of scripture to our discipleship. And this, among other things, is the reason why an extensive use of solitude and silence is so basic for growth of the human spirit, for they form an appropriate context for listening and speaking to God.”
From The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God. Copyright © 1997 by Dallas Willard. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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