Anxious for Nothing: Leaning Contentment by Following Jesus
The key to contentment is not the elimination of desire but a realignment of desire so that what we want more than anything is to be of service to God.
The key to contentment is not the elimination of desire but a realignment of desire so that what we want more than anything is to be of service to God.
God is not constrained by our competence and capacities…we are challenged to live with His endless capacity in mind.
If discipleship is our way of being in the world, we must understand how to speak and act in a “discipled” manner.
Christian discernment is governed by God’s word and nested in discipleship.
Our commitment to an academic discipline can be a bane and a blessing as the boundaries of our deep expertise can create the illusion that we know more than we actually do.
As Christians, we are to immerse ourselves in the scriptures and in the life of the church so that we learn to resist the ideas and practices that might hinder us from becoming faithful disciples.
We must recognize that often discipleship needs to be “challenging, but doable.”
For obedience to be our strategy, we don’t pick and choose when to listen to Christ and when to chart our own course.
One of my favorite cooking shows is Chopped. Four contestants, usually highly trained chefs, are given a “mystery basket” filled with odd ingredients to make an appetizer, main course, and dessert. If the mystery basket is filled with gummy worms, jerky, pita bread, and pretzel sticks, the contestants have to head to the pantry and make […]
Through his work and the Moody Center, James Spencer recognized the character of D.L. Moody as a man who followed Christ.
If Christians only point fingers or advocate for one political solution or another, will we not miss opportunities to point the lost to the cross of Christ?
What might it look like to clear our minds of the many pseudo-obligations of the holiday season so that we can enjoy being in God’s presence?
We would do well to remember God’s desire for impartiality as we read, speak, write, post, or tweet.
Still, we are the only people capable of proclaiming Christ to a world that desperately needs to hear the gospel and see it worked out in a broken world.
Ignoring any outside perspective to avoid harsh criticism and uninformed opinion isolates you from bad and good ideas.
Simply gaining knowledge, however, is not the goal.
God uses us despite our failings and, at times, because of them.
Nations will fall, yet all those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ belong to a “kingdom that cannot be shaken”
We will begin to see that there are often more possibilities available to us than those who tell stories today might like us to think.
When we are too rigid in our theological thought, we run the risk of limiting God.
The study of God’s word and theology has always come more naturally to me than prayer.
The way we speak says something about our hearts.
We can humbly and eagerly approach God with anything we are battling.
Love for others springs from love for God. It isn’t complicated, nor is it easy.