Worry and idol
I notice lately how my worry can easily become my idols and sway me from seeking Him first. For example…if I worry I don’t have money, in my mind I can already think of so many different ways to make more. Back up plans. Yet, the most important is to sit before Him first. To […]
Of sin and duty
No one sins out of duty I read this line from a book earlier this week and had me thinking on the drive to work. No one gets up in the morning and tell himself or herself, I MUST sin. We choose to sin because of the hollow promise it offers. A rebellious choice more […]
Let us not our souls to one another
Yesterday during worship, we sing Give Us Clean Hands by Chris Tomlin. Here is part of the lyric: We bow our hearts We bend our knees Oh Spirit come make us humble We turn our eyes From evil things Oh Lord we cast down our idols Oh give us clean hands and give us pure […]
What mature Christian do…
From Tim Keller‘s Counterfeit gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters Speaking about the characteristics of a mature Christian: Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going […]
Abraham, Issac and Jesus
Why had Isaac not been sacrificed? The sins of Abraham and his family were still there. How could a holy and just God overlook them? Well, a substitute was offered, a ram. But was it the ram’s blood that took away the debt of the firstborn? No. Many years later, in those mountains, another firstborn […]