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Fist-Pumping Praise!
👊🤘 A guest post reflecting on Psalm 33- Why are people raising their arms in church? Have you ever been to church Sunday morning during worship and felt like you wanted to dance in the aisle or raise your arms like you were at a rock concert or on top of a mountain, clapping your hands and shouting loudly? But then you look around at everyone else and you think, “Oh man, if I start doing that then they’re just going to say I’m totally nuts.” Well, Psalm 33 suggests that this type of behavior, when moved by God, actually isn’t crazy, it’s “befitting” (Psalm 33:1). A shout for joy…
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How can we resist the passionate call of sin?
In order to help any Christian develop practices that will aid in the resistance of sin, we need to start with studying scripture. The entire Bible is trying to redress the presence of sin and the story of the Bible leads us to its crescendo in the gospels where Jesus is the one that ultimately pays the price for our sins because we are unable to. Basically, the Bible itself is presented as an authority on sin and how to respond to it. The passion of sin For example, in Romans 6:11-14, it talks about the passion of sin: “So you must also consider yourselves dead to sin and alive…
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Crazy Love
“with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,”Ephesians 4:2 ESV Bearing With Someone vs Tolerating Someone Bearing with one another sounds a lot different than tolerance. What does it matter if I say I am tolerating you versus I am bearing with you? Tolerance seems to mean that I am putting up with you and that I am ignoring your sinful nature and your bad behavior or your glaring struggles. When a person tolerates another person, they are not enduring the pains that others are going through. They’re not even aware of them most of the time. It’s like wanting to be able to stand…
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Not all love is created equal
“Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.” 1 John 2:15-16 ESV YouVersion Bible link Love is a choice. It is a decision that one consciously makes. It is acting for one option to the exclusion of another. Love is associated with desire in a way that illustrates this choice. Though the two concepts are closely intertwined (as these verses highlight) desire and…
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