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Thought for the Day – The Limits of Sound Doctrine
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged diffuse, sound doctrine, weak character on April 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Thought for the Day – Save Us from the Cross?
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged cross, follow Him, suffering, take up our cross, unworthy of Him on March 27, 2024| 2 Comments »
We can convince ourselves that Christ endured the suffering so that we don’t have to, but He did not come to save us from the cross. In fact, He said that unless we are willing to take up our cross and follow Him, we are unworthy of Him (Matt.10:38).
Thought for the Day – Disciples
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged deny ourselves, disciple, disciples, take up our cross on March 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
We cannot “make disciples (Matt.28:19)” unless we are disciples, and we cannot be disciples unless we are willing to deny ourselves and take up our cross “daily” (Luke 9:23).
Thought for the Day – A Way of Thinking
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged prayer, submit, way of thinking on February 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Prayer should not be our attempt to get God to come around to our way of thinking, it should be our effort to submit ourselves to His way of thinking.
Thought for the Day – Best Version of Yourself
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged best version of yourself, created to be, creator on February 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Becoming “the best version of yourself” is not necessarily the same as becoming who you were created to be. The latter requires the involvement of the Creator.
Thought for the Day – Restless
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged diligence, diligent, diligently seek, rest, strive, work on January 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Perhaps the struggle to enter into the rest that God offers (Matt.11:28) is rooted in the failure to do the work He’s given us (John 6:29). While we need not strive for His approval, there must be diligence in our seeking (Heb.11:6).
Thought for the Day – Embodied
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged embodiment, life, love, truth, way on January 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Jesus didn’t come to simply point us in the right direction. He is the embodiment of love (1John 4:16), truth (John 14:6), and justice (Ps.89:14). He is the way, and the life (John14:6) and the Word (John 1:1). Our efforts to know these things without knowing Him are futile.
Thought for the Day – The Boundaries of Knowledge
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged faith, hope, humility, knowledge, love, perfection on January 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A lack of knowledge can ultimately prove to be fatal (Hosea 4:6), but knowledge without humility puffs a man up (1Cor.8:1), and knowledge without love amounts to “nothing” (1 Cor.13-2&3). When we come face to face with perfection whatever knowledge we have acquired will pass away (1Cor.13-8), and only the things rooted in faith, hope and love shall remain (1Cor.13:13).
Thought for a Day – Nay-Sayer
Posted in Thought for the Day / Quotes, tagged commend, criticizing, nay-sayer, objecting, oppose, speaking against on January 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The problem with becoming a nay-sayer (i.e. constantly criticizing, objecting, speaking against…) is that what you oppose tends to eclipse what you might otherwise commend. People clearly understand what you hate but are unsure of what (if anything) you love.
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