Why is understanding God's creation important to my spiritual health?
Short Answer: Understanding the creation provides me with Identity. Knowing my identity gives me security. With a secure identity, I then find Purpose. With purpose, I Live Happily. When I'm happy, people want to know my Secret.
Our lives and beliefs should not be a secret.
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Sunday, August 16, 2015
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Unbearable Tension
... Which Story Are You a Part of?
The following is a modified version of the lesson that you can find here.
"There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan." -- C.S. Lewis
1 Cor. 8:5-6; 1 Thes. 5:21; Ro. 12:1-2
I. The Importance of Story
The idea of story is not in a literary sense, in which characters act and have events happen, but in a meta-narrative sense, meaning the overarching world view that is our foundation and which shapes and gives meaning to our lives. Another way to think of it is a lens. Different lenses bring different things into focus. So what kind of lens will you use for your life?
'What is the real story that my life is a part of and what am I to do?' You can only answer this question if you can answer: 'What story do I find myself a part of?'
The following is a modified version of the lesson that you can find here.
"There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan." -- C.S. Lewis
1 Cor. 8:5-6; 1 Thes. 5:21; Ro. 12:1-2
I. The Importance of Story
The idea of story is not in a literary sense, in which characters act and have events happen, but in a meta-narrative sense, meaning the overarching world view that is our foundation and which shapes and gives meaning to our lives. Another way to think of it is a lens. Different lenses bring different things into focus. So what kind of lens will you use for your life?
'What is the real story that my life is a part of and what am I to do?' You can only answer this question if you can answer: 'What story do I find myself a part of?'
Monday, August 3, 2015
Why Deep Roots?
1 Timothy 4:16 says to watch your life and your doctrine closely.
So why Deep Roots?
Hebrews 5:12-14
12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Let's all move on to solid food.
So why Deep Roots?
- To Grow Up - Heb. 5:11-6:2 - Be more today than what you were yesterday
- To Overcome - Mk. 4:5-6, 16-17; Jn. 5:39; Ro. 10:17 - Those roots don't grow just by a Bible being there
- Eagerness - Acts 17:11 - Not just enthusiasm, but Great Eagerness - Are you approaching the scriptures this way?
- Examine the Scriptures - Acts 17:11 - The Greek word for examine, Anakrino, used here is to judge, investigate and question in a forensic sense
- Obedience - Jn. 14:21; Jn. 8:31-32 - If you don't put into practice what has already been learned, why would God give you deeper insight?
Hebrews 5:12-14
12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Let's all move on to solid food.
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