31
Jul '17
Take Captive Every Thought
31
Jul '17
by Ronnie Hewitt
2Corinthians 10:3-5 “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
Christian warfare involves bringing all our thoughts into alignment with Christ’s will; failure to do so will lead to immorality and spiritual death (Rom 6:16, 23; 8:13). I believe that we can use the following steps to bring our thought life under Christ’s lordship.
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10
Jul '17
Fruitful and Flourishing
10
Jul '17
Wisdom Hunter, 7/6/2017
“The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. In old age, they still produce fruit.” (Psalm 92:12-14)
In the book of Genesis, we encounter God’s original plan for humanity. He lays out with utmost clarity the purpose and vocation of men and women within His created order. “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth” (Gen. 1:28). One way to tell the story of creation, fall, and redemption is through this lens of fruitfulness and flourishing.
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25
Jun '17
The Refiner
25
Jun '17
Author Unknown
Malachi 3:3 “He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, That they may offer to the LORD An offering in righteousness.”
A few ladies were studying the scriptures when they came upon the verse above.
One lady decided to go visit a silversmith, and report to the other on what he said concerning the subject. She went and without telling the silversmith the reason for her visit, begged him to tell her about the process of refining silver.
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