If you could recommend only one book....
If there is already a thread on this, please point me to it….and accept my apologies.
If you could recommend only one book to someone serious about their walk with Christ, what would it be?
Not including any of the 66 books in the Bible….
Dwayne
Discussion
Promises to Israel: We Should Expect Literal Fulfillment
If Israel has been chosen to perform a special role in the divine plan, what promises have been given to Israel that will enable that ancient people to fulfill that role?
The Apostle Paul is clear on the great privileges that God has granted Israel. He wrote in Romans 9:4: “who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises.” Paul nowhere intimates that these great privileges have been annulled, forfeited, or cancelled. As a matter of fact the three chapters of which this verse is a part (Rom. 9-11) have as one of their purposes to emphasize that God has not cancelled His promises to Israel or transferred them to some other people! What says Paul in Romans 11:1?: “I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew.”
Discussion
In Mark 3:11 and elsewhere, demons identified Jesus but he silenced them. Why?
Poll Results
In Mark 3:11 and elsewhere, demons identified Jesus but he silenced them. Why?
Jesus did not want to receive testimony from the demons but wanted people to conclude he was Messiah by his works and person Votes: 8
The demons worshippied him and acclaimed him hoping for mercy, but he did not wish to discuss it Votes: 0
Jesus did not want to make it easy for onlookers to assume he was in league with them Votes: 1
Other Votes: 4
Discussion
Connected Truth: Abiding with Eternal Fact
Read In The Great Divorce a repentant liberal tells a stuffy and impenitent bishop that if he will rethink his pretensions about religion, he will take him to meet “Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facts.” The cleric disdainfully turns down the offer, preferring to remain under the delusion that “God” and “fact” do not dwell on the same plane of objectivity. It is a strange deception indeed which constructs a grand array of “facts” and suspends them over a bottomless chasm, but that is what sinners do with facts. They encounter them; they label and categorize them; but they attempt to ground them in the ether of a wholly impracticable worldview.
That is how I was before I met “Eternal Fact.” My dealings with Truth were occasional and, from my point of view, impersonal. And it was this impersonal view of Truth which gnawed away at me; for impersonal conceptions of Truth eventually depersonalize everything—even the viewer. They may seem impressive to our eyes for a while, but just as an attempt at landscape painting may please us until we set it alongside a Constable or a Monet, so truth without “the Spirit of Truth” gradually begins to look like a paltry thing. Truth (capital “T”); the kind that “shall make you free” (Jn. 8:32), springs forth from the “I AM” (Jn. 8:58).
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