ONE OF THE GREAT CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY IS THAT WE OFTEN FAIL TO VALUE OTHERS WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US We live in a universe of stupefying diversity. And for clarification, I am going to be discussing that word, "diversity", from it's historical definition, not it's...
MENTAL RENEWAL TECHNIQUES WORK FOR CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS ALIKE. The key to personal transformation, we learn in Romans 12:2, is mental renewal: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God...
CHRISTIANS MUST RESIST TAKING ON THE “COLOR” OF CULTURE AROUND US Chameleons are able to take on the color of the plants or other background in which they find themselves. They blend in so well that they often cannot be distinguished from their surroundings. Humans are the...
WE CAN CHANGE FROM WHO WE ARE TO WHO WE WANT TO BE I remember when I was still a student, hearing theologian and philosopher Francis Schaeffer say one of the most liberating things I've ever heard. He said most people get their values the same...
WE ARE PROGRAMMED BY GOD TO SEEK OUR OWN WELFARE, BUT WE OFTEN TRY TO FIND IT IN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE OTHER THAN IN GOD The #1 reason we act the way we do is that we think it will bring us the greatest happiness. That...
WE DON’T “OWN” TRUTH THAT GOES IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER Truth is vital to everyone. It does no one any good not to operate on the basis of truth. This is especially true regarding the Christian life. Jesus said, “You shall know the...
WE MUST DEPLOY OUR MIND IN HELPFUL WAYS Last week we said that the Christian life, and the spiritual warfare that it inevitably involves, is a battle for the mind. If that battle goes well, our Christian life goes well. If that battle goes poorly, our...
WE MUST GUARD OUR MIND TO PROTECT IT FROM HARM The Christian life, and the spiritual warfare that it inevitably involves, is a battle for the mind. If that battle goes well, our Christian life goes well. If that battle goes poorly, our Christian life goes...
GROW CLOSER TO GOD BY GROWING CLOSER TO HIS WORD It is normal for Christians to long for a closer relationship with God than they have. After all, we cannot see him, hear him, or touch him, so it is natural for earthlings to long for...
WE MUST BE AS COMMITTED OUR “CALLING” AS THEY ARE TO THEIRS In the Winter volume DTS Magazine, the official publication of Dallas Theological Seminary, Tom Doyle wrote an article entitled “Persecution: The New Normal.” (Page 10) In it, he makes the case that persecution of...