Category: Spirituality
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Spiritual Cleansing
1 John 1:8-9 (NLT) If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. INTRODUCTION Let’s be careful that the teaching on…
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A Better Fulfillment
Sometimes God chooses to fulfill his promise to bless us in a spiritual rather than in a literal manner so as to cultivate greater intimacy between us and him.
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The Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22–26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the…
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Prayer for Freedom
Lord,It is more important to have wisdom than to have money;It is more important to be free than to gratify my lusts;It is more important to see Truth Than to taste pleasure;It is more important to love you than to love life. May you in your mercy free me from my various slaveries. Amen.
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Age and Works
I’m not making as good use of my blog as I should and I realize I should do something about it. What I should do is write more often. This will require discipline on my part, but surely the resulting benefits will be worth the effort. I meditate a lot on Scripture. I do this…
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Eye more the spiritual and eternal
“Eye more, mind more, and lay to heart more the spiritual and eternal workings of God in your souls than the external providences of God in the world.” (Thomas Brooks) I’m presently reading Thomas Brooks’ sermon “The Pastor’s Legacies” which is included in Sermons of the Great Ejection. Here’s a sobering thought: we’re so concerned…
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Chastisement
Sorrow – painful sorrow – fills my long and gloomy days. Life’s a mixture of deep sadness and unexpected grace. The Lord is good and has to me brought blessing from my pain. But tears are my sad portion still; they wash not sin’s deep stain. Because I chose to disobey and rebel in my…
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Apostasy and Grace
Some give up: lava on the street, no walking from now on. If grace is true, where is the power? Why still a slave to sin? But grace flickers amidst the ocean of corruption, like a magic candle. Soon it will burn everything up!
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Obadiah
“Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly, and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.” (1 Kings 18) Obadiah seems to be one of the great forgotten people in the Bible. He is virtually…
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Thomas Merton on Spirituality
“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.” But if so, then spirituality must be an engagement with ordinary life, not a withdrawal from it. Merton himself said, “Jesus lived the ordinary life of the men of His time,…
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