Congratulations to Michelle! She is the winner of the December “Bible in a Year” Sign Up drawing. She’ll receive a copy of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney.
You also might be interested in
May is Mental Health Awareness month and there is much being written on the subject. But I would like to pose a couple of questions that I believe need to be asked as we think about people's mental and spiritual well-being. Has psychology, as we know it today, affected the spread of the gospel? And has it hindered spiritual growth in believers? When I speak of psychology, I’m referring to it in the counseling or therapeutic sense. This has to do with diagnosing problems and seeking to change a person’s behavior, thinking, attitudes, values, and beliefs in an effort to solve those problems. I don’t mean to imply in any of my comments that counselors of all kinds don’t want to help people. But as followers of Christ, we need to hold everything up to the light of God’s Word. I hope to do that in this post.
After explaining who we are in Christ for three chapters, Paul begins chapter 4 of Ephesians by saying, "I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called." Because of everything Christ has done for you, I'm begging you to walk worthy of that calling. Or to say it another way, he gives us a snapshot of what a Spirit-controlled life should look like. We'll take a closer look at some of those characteristics today. And our reading from the book of Isaiah could be headlines from today’s newspapers! “Our courts oppose the righteous," "Justice is nowhere to be found," and "Anyone who renounces evil is attacked” for starters.
Leave a Reply
Your email is safe with us.