“The reality of spiritual blindness has important implications for the Christian community. The Hebrews passage [3:13] clearly teaches that personal insight is the product of community. I need you in order to really see and know myself. Otherwise, I will listen to my own arguments, believe my own lies, and buy into my own delusions. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Theology & Religion’
June 8, 2009
Snippets: Portrait of a Disciple
“The beatitudes paint a comprehensive portrait of a Christian disciple. We see him first alone on his knees before God, acknowledging his spiritual poverty and mourning over it. This makes him meek or gentle in all his relationships, since honesty compels him to allow others to think of him what before God he confesses himself [...]
April 15, 2009
Snippets: Taste and See
“There is a difference between believing that God is holy and gracious, and having a new sense on the heart of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. The difference between believing that God is gracious and tasting that God is gracious is as different as having a rational belief that honey is [...]
March 18, 2009
Never Let the Gospel Get Smaller
John Piper posted this brief article on the Desiring God blog yesterday that I found to be very needful and timely.
The gospel is the main thing, and yet Satan can very easily draw my focus away from the gospel and turn it toward things like my idol of self, my “pet” issues, my relationships, my [...]
March 7, 2009
Pleading for the Work of the Holy Spirit
The latest Sunday morning sermon series at church is entitled ACTS: The Unstoppable Advance of the Gospel to All Peoples. This study has already had a significant impact on my life simply by making me see the importance of the Holy Spirit’s work and my need for it.
One recent sermon in the series was The Vital [...]
February 11, 2009
How the Gospel has Nothing to do with Eyes that Fall off Dogs
Our church is cross-centered, wanting to bring the gospel to bear on everything–the gospel is not just for salvation, but for every thing that I face every day of my life.
When you’re not really accustomed to thinking this way, it’s difficult to see the connection between a life reality and a particular facet of the [...]
January 30, 2009
Snippets: Prayer
“The soul learns to pray by praying; for prayer is communion with a transcendent and immanent God who on the ground of his nature and attributes calls forth all the powers of the redeemed soul in acts of total adoration and dedication.”
–Arthur Bennett, in the preface to The Valley of Vision
January 6, 2009
Desiring God Blog on Prayer
In conjunction with Prayer Week at Bethlehem Baptist Church, John Piper has been posting about prayer at the Desiring God Blog. Take a look:
A Good Start on Prayer in 2009
John Newton’s Struggle with Prayer
10 Reasons to Pray the Scriptures
A List of Everything they Prayed for in the New Testament
9 Ways to Pray for your Soul
What [...]
December 18, 2008
Snippets: But God…
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires [...]
November 26, 2008
Snippets: True Bounty
“Thou Great and Only Potentate,
Thou has made summer and winter, day and night; each of these revolutions serves our welfare and is full of Thy care and kindness.
Thy bounty is seen in the relations that train us, the laws that defend us, the homes that shelter us, the food that builds us, the raiment that [...]
