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Oct 29, 2015 · How should a Christian think? What exactly is a Christian thought life? How it is any different from those who are not Christians? How does the gospel impact our very thoughts? These questions and others compelled me to write the following 8 week study on Philippians 4:8:
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In and of themselves, emotions are not sinful. Emotions are beneficial, and yes, even beautiful. The Psalmist understood this. In the classic passage describing God’s utmost care in creating us—Psalm 139—emotionality is the one aspect of our inner personality specifically referenced.
- I. What Paul Is Not Teaching: The Power of Positive Thinking.
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I need to focus on this for a moment because the Christian world has been infiltrated with the false teaching of “positive thinking,” popularized by Norman Vincent Peale and, with only slight variations, by Peale’s protege, Robert Schuller. If you are at all familiar with the teachings of these men, you know that they are not Christian in any ortho...
A number of years ago, the news media picked up the story of a woman known as “Garbage Mary.” She lived in a smelly Chicago tenement amid mounds of garbage. She spent her time rummaging through trash cans. She would bum cigarettes off her neighbors. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital after she was stopped for questioning and found to be in a...
Why are Peale’s “Positive Thinking” and Schuller’s “Possibility Thinking” fundamentally opposed to Scripture?Some Christians argue that we need to be aware of what’s going on in our culture through movies, TV, etc. Your response?How should a Christian police officer apply Phil. 4:8when he is daily confronted by moral filth in his job?Someone may argue, “The Bible itself has stories of immorality, etc. What’s the difference between reading it there and watching it on TV, movies, or video?” Your answer?topics of Scripture are identified, key biblical references are provided and the mutual relationship of topics is set out clearly. Over 2,000 topics detailed in this work cover
Oct 31, 2024 · Thinking about whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise applies to every area of life, but would seem to be especially appropriate for evaluating the consumption of popular media—music, TV, movies, and literature.
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Jan 15, 2021 · Life is full of emotion, miracles and facts. Life is growth, change, and experience. Life is intelligent, sorrowful, and full of regrets. Life is a story filled with forgiveness, hate, love, disappointment, discouragement, and questions. But what is the real purpose and meaning to the life we have? The word of God reminds us what life is!
