Category: The Christian Mind
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Unjudged
“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself… It is the Lord who judges me.” (1 Corinthians 4:3, 4b) Lord, deliver me from the curse of always needing or having to prove myself to […]
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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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Thoughts on the Church
The church, the body of Christ, is the penultimate goal of God’s creating of the world; the glory of God, of course, is the ultimate goal. To understand the meaning of our lives both in this world and the next, we must learn to see our lives in relation to the church both in her […]
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Think Christ (an Ikthus East Sermon)
The thoughts that dominate our minds determine our character, and eventually our destiny.
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Truth is a Gift
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) Truth is a Person who upholds all truthful propositions, ensuring that they correspond to reality. How? By holding all reality together. (Colossians 1:17) Coherence, then correspondence, and therefore truth. In a sense, truth is subjective. But, experience-wise, there is enough commonality to suggest that truth […]
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My Times Are In Your Hands
“But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, ‘You are my God.’ My times are in your hands.” (Psalm 31:14-15) Faith is a commitment in the context of relationship. It is the response of intimacy, issuing or arising from the sense or realization that that relationship has been in place all along, from the […]
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A Steadfast Mind (2)
And there are three parts of this steadfastness of the mind: (1) full purpose of cleaving to God in all things; (2) a daily renovation and quickening of the heart unto a discharge of this purpose; (3) resolutions against all dalliances or parleys about negligence in that discharge… – John Owen, The Power and Efficacy […]
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A Steadfast Mind
The steadfastness of our minds abiding in their duty is the cause of all our unmovableness and fruitfulness in obedience; and so Peter tells us that those who are by any means led away or enticed “fall from their own steadfastness” (2 Pet. 3:17). And the great blame that is laid upon backsliders is that […]
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Religion and Science
Sometimes people ask if religion and science are opposed to each other. They are – in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hand are opposed to each other. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped. — William Henry Bragg, British physicist who with his son won the […]
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