have you ever wondered how you should respond to life when you find yourself in a valley? i am tempted to make my response more complicated to situational strife because i am a Christian, and i know intellectually the fruit of the Spirit, the marks of a believer, and the promises that belong to those [...]
Posts Tagged ‘freedom’
life in the valley
Posted in Gospel, tagged freedom, gospel, Jesus, life, valley on January 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
freedom
Posted in eternity, freedom, tagged freedom on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
i felt it important to define what i mean by “freedom” especially since the title of this blog is “transparent freedom” john piper spoke and wrote recently on the subject, and i do not know that i could improve upon his work: You are fully free — completely free, free indeed — when you have [...]
in Christ, you are…
Posted in freedom, Jesus, tagged freedom, gospel, Jesus, life, spiritual amnesia on November 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Dead to sin (Rom 6:11) Spiritually alive (Rom 6:11) Forgiven (Col 2:13) Declared Righteous (1 Cor 1:30) A child of God (Rom 8:16) God’s possession (Titus 2:14) Heir of God (Rom 8:17) Blessed with all Spiritual blessing (Eph 1:3) Citizen of Heaven (Phil 3:20) Set free from power of sin (Col 2:11-15) Free from the [...]
you do what you want
Posted in filching friday, worship, tagged children, filching friday, freedom, Jesus, parenting, sacred, will on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Do you want to live in such an amazing divine Presence that life is transformed and transfigured and transmuted into peace and power and glory and miracle? If you do, then you can. For…we find time for what we really want to do.” -altered Thomas Kelly quote in “Sacred Parenting” by Gary Thomas (191) what [...]
criticism
Posted in filching friday, freedom, Jesus, tagged criticism, filching friday, freedom, grace, keller, moses, pride, sanctimonious spirit, self-pity, self-righteousness on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The relentless criticism had made him [Moses] self-righteous. He held them in contempt. He had wrath but no compassion, and that is the mark of a man who is becoming less like God, not more. (See Isaiah 15-16 where God grieves even as he speaks in judgment.) Moses is a man who has forgotten grace, [...]
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