SCRIPTURE REVEALS THE KEY TO ESCAPING THE CULTURAL RIPTIDE Last week I made the point that the first step in escaping the riptide of modern culture is realizing that modern culture has a powerful negative influence on an authentic Christian experience. This week, we make the next...
MODERN CULTURE HAS A POWERFUL NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ON AN AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE I started last week’s blog by saying that every moment of every day something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. Because we live in a fallen world influenced greatly...
POWERFEED YOUR SOUL WITH TRUTH, BELIEF AND REPETITION. Every moment of every day something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. Because we live in a fallen world influenced greatly by the presence, power and corruption of modern media, the natural course...
GET READY FOR YOUR INDUCTION. In last week’s post, I talked about accepting the challenge to become spiritual olympians. I ended with the implicit challenge: What would God do in us and through us if we, as Christians, became as dedicated to our spiritual progress as...
GOD CALLS US TO PERMANENT EXTRAORDINARY COMMITMENT Mary Lou Retton was an American gymnast who took the gold medal in the individual all-around competition in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Her groundbreaking performance, as well as her buoyant spirit, made her one of the...
THERE ARE THREE REWARDS FOR GOING ON GOD’S GREAT ADVENTURE In J.R.R. Tolkien's book, The Hobbit, the good wizard Gandalf encourages the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, to go on a great adventure to help recover a vast treasure from the dragon, Smaug. Gandalf: The world is not in...
IN THE MOVIE OF LIFE WE NEED TO BE ROY ROGERS, NOT TRIGGER Roy Rogers was an American actor who was one of the most popular Western stars of the 20th century. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he starred in over 100 movies and...
TRUTH IS WHAT GOD SAYS IT IS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE THINK On one level, yes, something can be true for you but not true for me. For example, I actually like broccoli. It’s not that I don’t hate it. It’s that I like it. I...
THERE IS A BALANCE BETWEEN HAMMERING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR AND ACCEPTING THAT IT MAY NOT OPEN Last week, I shared my struggle with the fact that God instructs us to importune (ask someone pressingly and persistently for or to do something) Him for things that are...
GOD GIVES US THE DIGNITY OF CAUSALITY I was struggling with the Lord a while back over an issue in my life that I wanted to have resolved. It has gone on so long that some time ago I had concluded that I either needed to...