Even if you just read the title of this post it did you good. This is taken from Disciple: Getting Your Identity From Jesus by Bill Clem. It is dangerous and tempting to change behavior without also changing heart and mind. Behavior modification has to do with “religion,” not with Christianity, and it leads to …
A good thought to take you into Sunday from Ray Ortlund. If we would stop treating Sunday as a second Saturday, one more day to run to Home Depot, one more day for the kids’ soccer games, another day for getting ready for Monday, if we would rediscover Sunday as The Lord’s Day, focusing on …
From Ed Welch at the CCEF (Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation). We can’t work on everything at once so we prioritize. Do you have any particular spiritual priorities right now? Are you focused on anything specific? Is patience high on your list of priorities? Is it in the top two or three? If so—you are …
Darren Whitehead is an old Mount Gambier boy who currently pastors as part of Bill Hybel’s team at Willow Creek. Here’s a piece written by him and Jon Tyson, posted at Catalyst blog called The Love You’ve Only Heard About. How do we truly experience the love of Jesus? Recently while studying the Gospels, I …
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