Tag: Idolatry

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By micoots
20/08/2016 0

The Kingdom Comes Not Through Maneuvers But By Repentance

Today’s Essenes are the gnosis-exalting hip churches and the law-exalting fundy churches, each preaching legalism of a different sort and rendering different sorts of people untouchable. They advocate withdrawal from either “church people” or “the world,” as if true kingdom enlightenment exists in an ecclesiological utopia hermetically sealed off and protected by either their cultural savvy or their cultural avoidance.

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered..

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By micoots
16/08/2016 0

What Happened To Nations Under Corrupt or Bad Leadership In The Bible?

The Bible tells us what happens to nations that fall into corruption and ungodly leadership.
Does God Abandon Nations?What happens to nations that fall into corruption and who have ungodly leadership? It seems obvious to most Christians because they can read the history of mankind, but also the historical accounts written in the Bible where nations departed from obedience to God and later fell into ruin because of idolatry (with sexually immoral practices), exceeding greed, and neglect of the po..

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By micoots
16/08/2016 0

Prophet Joseph — episodes thirty-three and thirty-four

Synopsis. The seven years of famine have begun. People across Egypt are wondering why they woke up hungry in the middle of the night, and why their plants have begun to wilt. Zuleikha, in addition to all her other recent losses, is beginning to go blind and finds it difficult to walk without falling. In Canaan, Jacob’s eyes have begun to dim, too, but he hears that the Egyptians are benefiting under a leader whose name sounds similar to Joseph. Back in Egypt, Zuleikha’s servants are unable to ge..

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By micoots
15/08/2016 0

Are We Talking Past Each Other? 3 Tips For Talking Faith With Friends & Neighbors

It is past time we return to the basics if we are to relate to those around us in a way they will understand who God is and what it means to follow Him.

When we send missionaries across an ocean, we know they will need to spend months learning not only a new language, but also new attitudes, customs, and expectations.

But what about when we share the gospel with our next door neighbor? Most of our neighbors speak the same language we do, shop at the same grocery store, and take the same roads..

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By micoots
15/08/2016 0

Are We Talking Past Each Other? 3 Tips For Talking Faith With Friends & Neighbors

It is past time we return to the basics if we are to relate to those around us in a way they will understand who God is and what it means to follow Him.

When we send missionaries across an ocean, we know they will need to spend months learning not only a new language, but also new attitudes, customs, and expectations.

But what about when we share the gospel with our next door neighbor? Most of our neighbors speak the same language we do, shop at the same grocery store, and take the same roads..

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By micoots
15/08/2016 0

Ten Truths For Thomas

So here are ten truths for Thomas to drive out unbelief – are you facing financial ruin, are you unable to pay the mortgage, has you child gone off the rails, is your church wrecked by dispute, have you lost you wife or parent, are you about to be laid off, are you worried about travel with terrorists, are you afraid of LGBT lawsuits, do you think God’s forgotten your cancer, that you’ll get no strength for sickness, that this grief will drown or kill you, that there’s slim hope for the Gospel, ..

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By micoots
15/08/2016 0

The Cause of our Quarrels

In order to effectively address the conflicts in our homes, we need to see the real issues behind the conflict. We need to get to the heart of the matter. Our children’s hearts. Our hearts. We need to pray and ask the Spirit to make us aware of the idols we worship. We need to pray for the Spirit to do the same work in our children. We need to pray for wisdom to work with our children in discussing these idols and what they mean to them. We need to confess and repent of our idolatry. Then we nee..

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By micoots
13/08/2016 0

The Limits of W-w

“But as all immigrant groups know, leaving the ghetto for the suburbs is part of the American dream. So for w-w to happen you may need to hunker down in the ghetto (or if Amish on the farm or if Benedictine in the monastery).”

Like I say, transformationalism is good on inspiration but not so good on transformation. Jim Bratt gave a peak behind the curtain of neo-Calvinist culture in the U.S. in his last post before heading to China on a Fulbright (happy trails, Jim):

Boy, do we need that now. ..

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By micoots
11/08/2016 0

Themelios 41.2

The Gospel Coalition just released the August 2016 issue of Themelios, which has 197 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. A print edition will be available for purchase in several weeks from Wipf and Stock.

Links to editorials, articles, and book reviews in Themelios 41.2 are included below.

D. A. Carson | Editorial: The Woman from Kentucky, One Year Later
Michael J. Ovey | Off the R..

By micoots
11/08/2016 0

Thought for the morning of Thu August 11, 2016

Verse: “Oh that I were as in months past.” — job 29:2
Thought: Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard the present with dissatisfaction; they look back upon the days which they have passed in communing with the Lord as being the sweetest and the best they have ever known, but as to the present, it is clad in a sable garb of gloom and dreariness. Once they lived near to Jesus, but now they feel that they have wandered from him, and they say, “O that I were as in months past!..