A thought came to me when we were studying the clearing of the temple by Jesus and His declaration that He would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days:
The Temple in Jerusalem was made with human hands, made with human righteousness and honored in human ways. Christ destroyed that temple and built a [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 30, 2008
The Second Temple
October 25, 2008
The Depravity of Man
Even non-Christians are aware of it on some level.
Happy reading.
October 25, 2008
Living Daily Water
Living water.
I chuckle to myself standing over the kitchen sick with another cup of water, struck by the words of a song by Avalon:
You’re everything to me
More than a story, More than words on a page
Of History
You’re the air the I breathe
The water I thirst for
And the ground beneath our feet
You’re everything
To me
I’m bemused about [...]
October 20, 2008
No Such Thing as a “Stronger Christian”
There is no such thing as a “stronger Christian.” I don’t mean that there aren’t more mature Christians: I mean that there is nothing inherent in a person that makes him a “strong” or a “weak” Christian.
A mature Christian is one who saturates himself with scripture, meditates on it, and grasps hold of God and [...]
October 17, 2008
Porn desensitizes us to other pleasures
Porn is bad. But we often don’t realize how bad.
In a continuation from a previous post about how caustic porn is, I address another effect of porn: listless disatisfaction with anything else but the porn-masturbation combination. (Credit: Husbands and Dads blog)
Excerpt: “Are You a Porn Addict?“
Of the two pleasure centers in the brain, one is [...]
October 15, 2008
God-Centered Helping Others
In an age when helping others is already seen as a big accomplishment, we often stop at the act and don’t stop to examine ourselves.
Tim Keller speaks in an interview about the dynamics of a church as it grows larger and about how we can actually be selfish in helping people.
Redeemer has grown fairly rapidly [...]
October 14, 2008
God’s Standards, not Mine
When a brother praised me for having high standards, I was a bit annoyed. I appreciate the intention behind the complement, but I don’t like how this implies that those standards are my own, that I’m simply going above and beyond the call of duty.
My “high standards” come simply from my desire to follow Christ, [...]
October 14, 2008
A Life of Worship is like Breakfast
A life of worship is like the habit of eating breakfast. Everyone — well, every Christian — knows it’s good for you. But no one does it. How sad.
Qualification of Terms:
“Worship”: not just singspiration but worship as a lifestyle of choice (not emotion).
October 11, 2008
Singspiration, not “Worship”
It’s a pet peeve of mine:
Singing with the “worship band” up in the front, or the choir — whatever it may be — a lot of people call it “worship” time, “worship” team, “worship” leader. Worship is so much larger than that. Worship is our lives: worship is the living of our lives that points [...]
October 10, 2008
The Caustic Nature of Pornography
An excellent blog, Art of Manliness, has written a post about how to have an affair-free marriage. Though I’m “just a college student” and “far from marrying,” and you may be too, I think this applies to us as well. A romantic relationship should be pursuing marriage as a tangible and realistic goal. As such, [...]
