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May 30, 2017  David Murray   1 comment

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The Real Root of Sexual Sin
A most perceptive article on sexual sin.

“The most powerful weapon against sexual impurity is humility. Patterns of sinful thought and behavior are fruits of a deeper root. If we want to stop bearing bad fruit, we must aim our primary attack against the root. And the root of sexual sin is not our sex drive; it’s pride.”

The Most Marginalized Minority
This pierces the heart:

This mind of Christ will not allow us to hide, but empower us to embrace the most marginalized and frightening minority in our world: the disabled. They are not an optional upgrade to our ministry endeavors. They are vital and precious members of Jesus’s body.

Don’t Pursue Feelings. Pursue Christ
Joe Thorn does a good job of balancing emotion and doctrine:

“One danger is emotionalism, in which we allow our feelings to interpret our circumstances and form our thoughts about God. This is putting feelings before faith. The other danger is a kind of stoicism, where faith is rooted in theology but void of affection. This tendency removes feelings from faith altogether. While it is true that our emotions should not lead our theology, it is vital to our faith that theology lead to a deep experience of our triune God.”

Single For a Reason: Eight Lies We Tell Unmarried Women
Good guide on what not to say.

Someone More Important Than Your BFF
Here’s an extract from Reset on prioritizing and progressing in our relationship with God:

Like all healthy and satisfying relationships, our relationship with God needs time and energy. But giving time and energy to our relationship with God actually increases free time and energy because it helps us get a better perspective on life and order our priorities better, it reduces the time we spend on image management, and it removes fear and anxiety.

Kindle Books

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever $2.99. Just in case someone out there hasn’t got this yet.

Expository Apologetics: Answering Objections with the Power of the Word by Voddie Baucham $4.99.

The Radical Pursuit of Rest: Escaping the Productivity Trap $3.99.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you so much for the helpful articles and links on your blog. I found the article ‘Single for a Reason: 8 lies we tell unmarried women’ helpful. I agree with you that it’s a good guide on what not to say, but it may be an even better guide on what not to think. After all, it’s from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks, and so well-meaning people say these kinds of things because that’s what they believe. This adds to the pain of unwanted singleness because we know that’s what many (if not most) people believe about us, even if they know better than to say it to our faces. However, as single women we do need to ask the Lord for grace to receive or overlook, (or forgive!) the things people say to us, or think about us, which may cause us pain.