WILDERNESS: How to Deal with Difficult Texts
Only as we stand-under Scripture’s authority can we ever hope to under-stand its meaning.
Only as we stand-under Scripture’s authority can we ever hope to under-stand its meaning.
An admission says, “I did it, but it was not my fault.” A confession is simple honesty before God about what is true.
We don’t need churches with missions. We have a mission in need of churches.
This is what God is looking for in us: someone who will not give up on God’s people even when it seems like God has given up on them himself.
This is what God is looking for in us: someone who will not give up on God’s people even when it seems like God has given up on them himself.
The hands of the ones who make the representations of gods soon become the self-appointed hands of the gods themselves.
God only wants one thing of us: bonded attachment in our relationship with him and covenant faithfulness in our relationships with others.
We must all at once depend completely on God’s mercy without presuming on his grace. This is impossible unless we actually know God.
The Law was given so the Spirit may be desired. The Spirit was given so the Law might be obeyed.
If our relationship with God doesn’t directly show up in our relationships with each other, our relationship with God is broken.
Repentance must include waking up from our predictable devotional patterns and getting back to the core essence of they are really all about: meeting with God.
God is holy, yet we live in an age with such a thin and sentimental vision of God.