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January 6, 2023
The One, Single Most Important Spiritual Discipline
No Spiritual Discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word. Nothing can substitute for it. There simply is no healthy Christian life apart from a diet of the milk and meat of Scripture. The reasons for this are obvious. In the Bible God tells us about Himself, and especially about Jesus Christ, the […]
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January 5, 2023
The law of effort
There is more to Christian living than trying really hard to be good. More, but never less. Some Christians, I am afraid, don’t try hard enough. When Paul spoke of Christian living he spoke of striving and straining and boxing and running. These are all very active metaphors. David Mathis says, “God’s work does not make […]
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January 4, 2023
Joyful Surrender
Discipline, for a Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. If we didn’t have this, we wouldn’t have anything. We are meant to present it, offer it up, give it unconditionally to God for His purposes. This, we are […]
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January 3, 2023
Grace Giving
The story goes that a man was attending a cattle auction where the auctioneer was enumerating the qualities of a beautiful Guernsey cow. The newcomer, eager to buy the cow, asked an old farmer who seemed to know something about every cow at the auction, “How much does she give?” The old-timer responded, “Doesn’t give […]
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January 2, 2023
Greek words for love
The Greek language of Paul’s day had at least three common words that can be translated by the English word “love”: erōs (this term does not appear in the New Testament), philia [5373], and agapē [26]. The word erōs very often referred to a self-pleasing, passionate love, from which we get our English term “erotic.” […]
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God Is Closer Than Your Think
Frederick Buechner writes, “There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not . . . because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” How close has God come? So close that, as Thomas à Kempis […]
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January 1, 2023
Spiritual Disciplines of the Christian Life
Discipline without direction is drudgery. Imagine six-year-old Kevin, whose parents have enrolled him in music lessons. After school every afternoon, he sits in the living room and reluctantly strums “Home on the Range” while watching his buddies play baseball in the park across the street. That’s discipline without direction. It’s drudgery. Now suppose Kevin is […]
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