We inhabit a culture obsessed with images of perfection, whether they be our bodies or our lifestyles. Add to that our inclination to idealise and normalise the best of what we perceive around us and our lives become a mire of dis-satisfaction. Altered photographs fill our media, creating a false sense of bodily perfection. Commerce …
Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 9 Chapter 5 – Of Providence cont. (Paragraphs 5-7) V. The most wise, righteous, and gracious God, does often times leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto …
The Gospel frees us from surrounding ourselves with people just like us. It also helps us think about what church we should go to on the basis of opportunity to serve rather than the basis of what I think I need. From Michael Horton’s The Gospel Driven Life. ht & ht The last thing we …
This is a truth I need to understand again and again. From Zack Eswine’s Sensing Jesus: One of the first signs that we are approaching the borders of attempting omnipotence is this: we believe that another is choosing a course of action because he or she simply isn’t clear on what is right. Therefore, we …
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