Archive for August 1998
Protecting Your Thought Life
An employee at a video rental store recalled the following incident: “I mentioned to a customer that her son already had a film out. ‘What film’? she asked. Realizing that it came from the adult section, and too embarrassed to tell her the title, I mumbled, ‘Uh … I’m not sure.’ ‘That’s all right,’ she…
Read MoreWho Is Sufficient?
A while back my wife, Linda, and I were in our living room when we heard a “bang”! The electricity in the neighborhood went out, so we lit some candles. A while later the electric company fixed the problem and the lights went back on. When we lose power it reminds us of how important…
Read MoreThe Exchanged Life
One phrase that is often used to describe the process of allowing Christ to live His life through us is “The Exchanged Life”. It was a phrase used in chapter 14 of the devotional biography, Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret. The great missionary to China, who had been frustrated in his attempts to live the abundant…
Read MoreBlessings in Christ
“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God–and righteousness and sanctification and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). The preceding verses in this context describe how God chooses the “weak and foolish things” to put to shame the values of this fallen world (1 Cor. 1:23-29). “Of Him you are…
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