A Biblical Understanding of Guilt
Guilt is generated when a person knowingly or unknowingly violates the law of God, acts badly towards another person, commits a crime, or violates their own standards or moral boundaries. The effects of guilt on an emotional level are stressful. If the person is very sensitive and/or the guilt is really pressing, it can take […]
Continue Reading...A Biblical View of Emotions
Emotions are mostly involuntary, organic bodily responses. How we think and how we act result in emotions. Conscious thoughts and behaviors, as well as unconscious habit patterns, result in emotions. The positive emotions of love, joy, peace, contentment can be a wonderful human experience, whereas the negative emotions of unrighteous anger, bitterness, jealousy and sadness […]
Continue Reading...Do You See This Woman?
She heard Him speak in the city and saw the crowds following Him. Can the stories about the miraculous healings be true? He spoke with such authority that it caused her to wonder in amazement. As she listened, His words began to penetrate her hardened heart. She was a woman of the world, but had […]
Continue Reading...A Breaking Before Worship
The Gospel of Mark, in chapter fourteen, has the story of an unnamed woman who enters the house of Simon the Leper in Bethany. Jesus was in Simon’s home, reclining at a table, as was the custom of that day, at meal time. This uninvited woman went straight to Jesus with an alabaster flask […]
Continue Reading...Study To Show Thyself Approved
One of my favorite verses, and a personal challenge to me, is 2 Timothy 2:15. The KJV reads “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.” When I did a word study on “study”, I realized why the NASB and the NKJV […]
Continue Reading...Working Out Your Salvation
Philippians 2:12b-13 “…work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” What does it mean to work out my salvation? Do I have to attempt to earn my salvation by works, by doing good deeds, by […]
Continue Reading...I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
Words from a folk melody from India – Source Unknown I have decided to follow Jesus (3x) No turning back, no turning back The world behind me, the cross before me (3x) No turning back, no turning back Tho’ none go with me, I still will follow (3x) No turning back, no turning back Will […]
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