When God says stop praying
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“…so instead of praying, they needed to act. This is why we read, ‘Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward” ’ (Ex. 14:15).” - Robin Schumacher
Applying biblical principles to social media
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“Just as humanity’s relationship with technology goes back to creation, so do the principles that should guide our usage of it.” - Lifeway
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Where We Draw the Line: How to Live (and Die) in Babylon
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“Apparently for Daniel, to give up control of his diet was to go against his conscience and compromise on his identity as a follower of the one true God, in a way that the name change did not.” - Alistair Begg
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“ ...biblical holiness is not only or even mostly what we stay away from, but in what we pursue”
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“Positive holiness requires that we take an action because it is right, not merely to avoid wrong.” - P&D
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“We sometimes make the Christian life more complicated than it needs to be and more complicated than it ought to be.”
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“the end of the matter, when all else has been heard, is that we are to simply fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the sacred duty of every man, the kind expectation of a loving God.” - Challies
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A Biblical Theology of Pleasure
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“God invented taste buds, and 10 million different flavors to go with them. The incredible pleasure of taste bears witness both that God is and that he is good (Acts 14:17).” - TGC
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Does Your Prayer Life Need to Change?
Reposted from Rooted Thinking.
I would guess that almost every Christians reading this sentence would like to have a deeper prayer life.
As we read God’s Word, we see that prayer is a crucial part of our Christian experience. It is not simply an event that we participate in, an exercise we accomplish, or a task we fulfill. Rather, prayer is humility before God. It is an expression of our faith in Him and in the veracity of His promises.
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5 Lies I Believed About Work
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“Lie #3: Full-time ministry is the only work that serves God. I struggled finding my calling in work for a while because I believed the false dichotomy that said I couldn’t serve God while working a ‘normal job.’” - Kevin Halloran
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Not Helpless in the Ruins: Trusting God Among the Chaos
Stay in China. This inexplicable message came from the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) to Eric Liddell in late February of 1941.1 He, his pregnant wife Flo, and their young two daughters had just evacuated Xiaochang in the Hubei Province to Tianjin on the northern coast. The Japanese army had wrecked havoc on the countryside. Helpless Chinese peasants lay in their wake. Liddell had seen their corpses and rescued a man laying among them who somehow had survived near decapitation.
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Recovering the Priority of Personal Holiness
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“…what gave John Owen success in ministry was not so much his oratory skill, nor his evangelistic zeal, nor even his love for the people he shepherded. John Owen was used mightily by God in all these ways because he was a man characterized by personal holiness.” - Alistair Begg
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