Friday, July 11th, 2008
Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy:
Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop.
Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems.
Simple ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
See the Christian Hedonistic appeal here?
"If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
From here:
In the end, there will be only one commandment for God's servants to obey forever and ever: "Be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create" (Isaiah 65:18). For those who refuse to rejoice in what God creates, Jeremy Taylor, the seventeenth-century Anglican bishop, summed it up: "God ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Some thoughts on Biblical thinking, decision making, and priority setting:
1. "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." - Philippians 1:21
As I'm writing this, I happen to be listening to the song "Center" by Charlie Hall. Here's the chorus:
Oh, Christ be the center of our lives
Be ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Sam Storms writes a very interesting article describing what he believes about most theological categories.
I am a Calvinistic, charismatic, complementarian, Christian hedonist. If that weren't enough to confuse you, I am also amillennial and baptistic, though I believe in rule by a plurality of Elders and maintain a moderately ...
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