Archive for the ‘ Shame ’ Category
It is a challenge to love purity – often I prefer perversion. Perhaps because purity is hard. The right and best way is always difficult. Though we want others to be all in for us, we hesitate to do the same thing for them. We know what is good, the things we desire deep down, [ READ MORE ]
If I want to be like Christ, I must choose him and do what he asks. The authority of his command is reason enough to obey, but his love provides me a choice. It is always better to choose his way. The alternative just isn’t so great. He is simply better. The other options ruin [ READ MORE ]
Often a gospel illustration begins with the question, “What do you think sin is?” A logical starting point because Jesus came for sinners. Most cannot define sin; in fact, most believers cannot define sin. Instead they give examples or say something like, “Sin is doing things we shouldn’t – bad, immoral things.” I believe we [ READ MORE ]
(Writing from the Apple Store in Back Bay on Boylston – really just a glorified computer lab, but they should get some chairs) A couple convicting thoughts from Jim Downing’s Meditations. As long as we have the intention of repeating the sin, we have not confessed and forsaken it. As we confess and volitionally forsake [ READ MORE ]
More than anything, I’ve been reminded of my own wretchedness this past semester. How I am so in need of forgiveness, unable to save myself. It is truly God’s grace when He reveals to us our sin; for in these moments, He is drawing us nearer to Himself. And who wouldn’t want that? The Christian [ READ MORE ]
Truth has been on my mind lately. Lies so powerfully distort our reality that we unknowingly live out of them. All sin and evil is deeply rooted in lies. Jesus is the Truth, Satan the Father of Lies. But I don’t think I fully realize how this affects everything. A quick recalling of my past though, and I know without a [ READ MORE ]
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