Are you an otter or a golden retriever? Are you a “D” or an “I”? Are you an “ENTJ” or “INFP”? Are you a green or a red?
The list could go on and on, for this is the vocabulary of the personality test. I’ve taken several of them myself, and I am consistently amazed at how ...
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2 Reasons We Should Keep Using the Word “Saved” –
You can almost hear the voice of the revival preacher bouncing off the tent folds somewhere in the deep south as he describes the perils of hell and the fact that we’re all headed there. Over and over again comes the question, “Have you been sa-a-a-a-aved-d-d-d-d-d!?!?!?!”
There ...
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3 Proper Ways to React to the Mysteries of God –
A.W. Tozer once wrote in The Pursuit of God:
“The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, ‘God.’ The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.”
What Tozer is ...
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3 Reasons Why Your Worry Problem Might Be A Worship Problem –
I just did a search on Amazon for books about anxiety. Here’s a few of the first listings:
Hardcore Self Help
Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Anxiety: Rewire Your Brain Using ...
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Two Ways to Grow in Our Desire for the Kingdom –
“Lord, teach us to pray.”
I resonate with that request the early disciples made of Jesus. There is implicit in the request a certain amount of humility that it takes any time you ask someone to teach you something. The acknowledgment behind the request is one of inadequacy; I ...
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3 Ways We Shortcut the Holy Spirit –
What was happening in the house spilled into the streets.
That’s the story of Acts 2, and that’s what happens still today with the people of God. We meet together, sing together, talk together, pray together, sit under the Word together, all in the midst of the family of God in ...
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