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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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- 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?Paul doesn't just say to stop thinking impure thoughts. No, he goes beyond that and says to begin thinking right thoughts (cf. Phil. 4:7- 8). We must "put off" (say "No!") AND "put on" (develop a new habit to replace the old one!). Picture a mountainside which has recently endured a forest fire. There it sits, blackened, dry and barren.
Why should we study Paul? Is it not adequate merely to study the Bible? Why should we isolate one man if we believe that the entire Bible is God inspired? Why should we segregate out Paul’s views on Biblical and theological issues instead of simply understand the entire counsel of God’s word on those issues? There are many wonderful reasons ...
In his letters, therefore, Paul frequently draws from Jewish Scriptures (known now to Christians as “the Old Testament”) and describes Jesus Christ as the means by which God fulfills great promises made long ago (for example, 2 Cor 1:18–20; Gal 3:29).
Oct 1, 2010 · Paul says in Ephesians 3:20, “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think” — more than we can imagine. More than we can dream. Infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.
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How will we study Paul? • Paul wrote 13 of 27 New Testament books • Paul is a focal point of Acts of the Apostles
