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Lessons in prayer
What I am hearing as I study and lean into prayer and waiting:
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Living in chaos
I am currently reading through Bonhoeffer the Assassin? by Mark Thiessen Nation, Anthony Siegrist, and Daniel Umbel. They take on what they call the “myth” that Bonhoeffer was an active participant in the plots to assassinate Hitler.
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The image of God in others
“I can never know in advance how God’s image should appear in others. That image always takes on a completely new and unique form whose origin is found solely in God’s free and sovereign act of creation. To me that form may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every person in the image of God’s Son, the Crucified, and…
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Jesus and the Powers, Part 8
The final chapters in the book, Jesus and the Powers, are a struggle for me. Chapter 7 is the struggle. Chapter 8 is the summary. The fact of the matter, for Wright and Bird, is that government of some form is necessary. I can’t disagree. For all the shouting people do about corrupt government (on the “right” or the “left”),…
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How do we discern the voice of the Lord?
I reflected HERE about the challenge of hearing the Lord calling out to us. We’re not always listening, but he is always calling. The question that needs to stay before us is this: How do we discern the voice of the Lord in our own lives?
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God isn’t bothered by “small”
I am reading through 1 Samuel now and Samuel as a character always draws me in. His “calling” is what his mother says it is. He grew up with a fixed duty. It’s offensive to our Western sense of the individual. That was just the world in which Samuel lived.
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Our lack of discernment is killing us
It is all at once laughable, irritating, and enraging. It wasn’t a decade ago that someone could float crazy ideas and just basically have them laughed off. Not anymore. So, the laughable has become enraging. To even point this out used to be embarrassing for me to do… now it is necessary.
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Crazy conspiracy theories in the time of coronavirus
If there is anything that is exposed quicker in this time, it is the American Christian lack of discernment. Somehow we act like discernment is some gift of the Spirit… you either have it or you don’t. To which I simply scream: GROW UP. PLEASE! If you want to believe that some secret lab created this as a biological weapon,…
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The rise of false Messiahs
At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time. (Matt. 24:23-25, NIV)
Tag: Discernment
