Ellie Holcomb and Jillian Edwards are The Dailys.
Falling Apart is another track from their debut EP.
A song of yearning for security in uncertainty and loneliness.
Ellie Holcomb and Jillian Edwards are The Dailys.
Falling Apart is another track from their debut EP.
A song of yearning for security in uncertainty and loneliness.
Applying the Bible in new covenant terms encourages disciples of Jesus to know who they are, to know the life that is our relationship with God.
Otherwise application can simply sound like stop this, do that, try harder; it can sound like every negative experience either means you’ve done something wrong, or you simply need to know the steps to escape it.
It can encourage Christians to evaluate their lives in terms of what they are doing or not doing, rather than considering how deeply we’re resting in the finished work of Jesus and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit
From Jared Wilson:
Doing flows from being. Who or what you believe yourself to be will direct how you live. So if you’ve been living a defeated, dreary, weary Christian life
To see ongoing change in what we do, we have to experience the ongoing change in who we are. And the law by itself cannot change who we are. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can do that.
The law on its own has only the power of condemnation. It shows us what to do and – make no mistake – it means for us to do it. But the power to obey can only come from the only thing the Bible calls power – the Holy Spirit working through the good news of Jesus Christ’s sinless life, sacrificial death, and glorious resurrection.
And if you are sending your people out every week to a war to fight driven only by commandments and no gospel, you send them out to fight a war that’s already over.
Don’t just tell them what to do for God; tell them who they are in Christ.
The gospel must be at the center of our efforts of obedience, at the center of our application, driving it and shaping it.
Yesterday (May 24) was Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday.
Because I live in Australia I usually find things out from Twitter a day late.
I’ve found that numbers of preachers who are usually about five to ten years older than me quote Dylan in their sermons.
Not so much these days.
Having traversed a number of positions and ideologies over the year means that Dylan’s body of work covers a lot of ground. But his music is a vehicle for a message that invites thought.
Here’s Gotta Serve Somebody.
Life seems to be waiting. The next step. The next stage.
The Bible reminds us of those whose faith was expressed and refined in waiting.
Even those of us who have the revelation of the new covenant are waiting for the fulfilment of all things.
And our lives are marked by waiting as we move from season to season.
That process, and the consistency and hope that it cultivates are the hallmarks of Christian faith.
J.D. Greear reflects on the excruciating circumstances through which Biblical figures continued waiting, continued growing in faith:
Maybe you are in a posture of waiting right now, and it feels dark. You may be confused or even feel abandoned.
Waiting is often a season of longing for something to be set right. Injustice seems to reign all around you; maybe you yourself have been the victim of it. Maybe you, like Anna, are yearning for some need to be fulfilled. Life just hasn’t turned out the way you expected. Maybe you are grieving the death of a child or another miscarriage. Maybe you are mourning a broken relationship. You’ve tried everything you know to try. You’ve gotten advice and prayed and believed and worked hard.
But still, things aren’t better.
Lamentations 3:25 says, “The LORD is good to those who wait for him …” The prophet Isaiah says, “Blessed are all who wait for him” (Isaiah 30:18 NIV) and, “… those who wait for me shall not be put to shame” (Isaiah 49:23 ESV).
God will not disappoint those who wait for him. He will not let you be put to shame. No one who has ever waited on God has ever been let down. You will not be the first.
Waiting is an essential, even appointed, part of the Christian life. We’re all waiting for the second coming of Christ, for the new heaven and the new earth, for Jesus to come and make things right and for all the sad things in our lives to come untrue..
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