Last week, I had the opportunity to share a series of devotions on the Christian Businessmen’s Connection PrayerNet call. I encourage you to check out PrayerNet each weekday morning, at 6:30. The conference call number is (518) 318-7962. For four days we explored the relationship between finding the center of God’s will – for protection […]
God’s Restoration in the Storms, Chaos, and Crises Read More »
We conclude this series on the acceptance of authority with a consideration towards reaching the secular, and increasingly hostile, world. God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son… and we must sacrificially love it, too. For if the Christian faith is true, and the Christian Church the authoritative vehicle of salvation
Reaching the World with Godly Authority Read More »
With the storms and chaos of this decade threatening to intensify (e.g., presidential election fallout, artificial intelligence disruption), each one of us would be wise to take advantage of this short, relatively peaceful pause before the next crisis. Be encouraged to resist the temptation to settle back into complacency. Allow God to build something into
inLight Adventure Newsletter – Do Not Waste the Pause Read More »
Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you. Titus 2:15 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock… 1Peter 5:2-3 The Lord has appointed and
Christianly Thinking – Acceptance of Authority (Part 3) Read More »
In my humble opinion, confusion surrounding kingdom, biblical, and communal authority has done great damage to the church for most of a century. A confused understanding of authority subverts our knowledge of God, weakens our defenses against evil, and inhibits the application of biblical truth through God’s grace. Most of our resistance against authority resides
Christianly Thinking – Acceptance of Authority (Part 2) Read More »
We have now explored three of Harry Blamires’ “Marks of the Christian Mind”: Its supernatural orientation, awareness of evil, and conception of truth. With three more to go, it would do us good to pause here and ask ourselves a few questions: Have I humbly considered my conformity to secular thinking? Have I begun to
Christianly Thinking – Acceptance of Authority Read More »
When we began this series of articles on our conception of truth, I did not expect there would be five of them, and it seems that there could be several more. But I sense the Spirit encouraging me to move on to the remainder of Blamires’ “Marks of the Christian Mind.” I expect we will
Christianly Thinking – Ours is the Foundation of Truth Read More »
Here, in the nineth article of the Christianly Thinking series (and fourth focused on our conception of the truth), we will take a relatively deep dive into the ways of God for engaging and/or not engaging with the world. There is a lot here, so let me summarize before we begin: The ways and worldviews
Christianly Thinking – Engaging the World With Truth Read More »
God is depending on us to proclaim that He is the great Reality, and that only He can give meaning to all other realities. A. W. Tozer Every Christian faces multiple realities on a regular basis. Every time we sit across from someone, there are at least three realities at play. Navigating the overlay and interplay
Christianly Thinking – Our Limited Conception of Truth Read More »
For the Christian, truth is supernaturally grounded: it is not manufactured within nature. The violence of the collision between the secular mind and the Christian mind in this respect is often underestimated. Failure to distinguish clearly between the Christian conception of truth and the conception of truth popularly cherished in the secular mind has been
Christianly Thinking – The Chasm Between Read More »