Tag: First Real Christian

The tongue can be tamed as it is trained by the Word of God and the Spirit of God.

When it comes to Christian discipleship, nothing could be more important than our immersion in the Word of God.

Christian maturity is the absolute abandonment of pretension and a gentle accountability to a few other people who are committed to your becoming your truest self—which is who Jesus would be if he were you.

In the end it’s not the people who had the most money or the best ideas or the highest biblical IQ that get honorable mention in the kingdom of God. It’s the ones who took the risk of action.

Faith is not something that exists in one’s head. It lives in one’s every day walking or it does not live at all.

It is human nature to want to make judgments against people and to seek justice. The nature of God is to make judgments and to show mercy.

You find out the most about a person by the way they treat other people who they perceive can’t do anything for them.

We don’t keep ourselves from being polluted by the world by escaping the world. It happens as we enter into the broken world in a different way.

Reading the Bible and praying and fasting and other exercises of Christian devotion cannot be mistaken for the activity of faith.

The Word of God not only gives us life, it cultivates growth and fruitfulness in our lives.

To try and suppress or destroy desire is futile. Our desire must be given a better object.

Sin doesn’t stand a chance against the humble and holy work of brothers and sisters watching over one another in love.