When psychological needs, rather than sin, are seen as our primary problem, not only is our self-understanding affected, but the gospel itself is changed.
You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure.
The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.
Aren’t most diets, even when they are ostensibly under the heading of health, dedicated to impressing others? The desire for the praise of men is one of the ways we exalt people above God.
Augustine wrote, That first way [to truth] is humility; the second way is humility, and the third way is humility.1 If humility does not precede our wisdom and help, our efforts are meaningless. Paul,...
Control and certainty are myths.
Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.
Fear in the biblical sense is a much broader word. It includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putt...
God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.
Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God,
If we look only at God’s love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God’s justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in ter...
In this classic reversal of reality, we do not stand before him, but the King stands before us. We question him; he doesn’t question us. The irony of it all! While the name of the Lord was constantly...
Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it c...
Jesus entered the temple area and revealed that he was the perfect and final priest; even more, he was the entire temple. All the temple symbols suddenly came to life. He was the wash basin, the Water...
Jesus freely placed your interest above his own. His desire was to elevate your status; in the process he lowered his own. He gave you the royal treatment: he works, you benefit. And you must accept t...
Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding...
Our fears have typically already decided that the worst is about to happen. Catastrophe is upon us and there is no hope. But Don’t be afraid, when spoken by the Lord, is a promise that the end will be...
The basic idea is to focus on the matchless worth of the Lord God and then get connected to him.
When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.
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