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Dedicated to the legacy of bold thinking Christianity through the writings of George MacDonald and Michael Phillips.
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Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
In one way or another, all the commands hit us between the eyes. If we are paying attention. This is their design.
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
One of the helpful benefits in focusing on the Commands is that it immediately shatters our preconceptions about spirituality. The Commands act as a giant screen to weed out superficiality and false priorities.
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
The first three gospels all report variations of the incident in which Jesus is asked what is the greatest commandment. If we were truly obedient sons and daughters of God, there would be no need for anything else to be said. We would have no need for the other more specific commandments. Love God and love man sums up everything.
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
As the church expanded and the hub of its missionary outreach shifted north to the cosmopolitan Antioch, one church leader remained in Jerusalem. That man was James, the Lord's brother.
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
The companion volume to this, The Commands, opened with the command from Jesus: Obey my commands. This same exhortation is urged by the apostles in a hundred different ways.
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
The Command to 'Love God' is at root vague and ambiguous. How are we to love God? Is such love something we feel? How many of us have read the words 'with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength,' and not felt that perhaps our love for God is not filled with the all-consuming level of devotion that Jesus spoke of. The practicality of it is hard to get hold of.
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
In emphasizing the practicality of the New Testament, we occasionally encounter a command where the "do" is more difficult to lay hold of than Do as you would be done by. Such is the command before us today.
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
We have spoken about growing in righteousness and the corresponding training that goes with it. One of the foundational components of such "fitness training" is so simple it takes no extra time at all.
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
It is surprising at first approach to the Commands of Jesus to discover that the command to "love" is not the most frequently given injunction to fall from his mouth. But it is surely the most pivotal and central command laid upon his followers which summarizes and incorporates and draws up into it all his teaching, and all the Commands.
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
It is a good practice to keep aware of one's spiritual rudders. These are the priorities and perspectives that keep life's ship on course, moving straight and true, impervious to changes of weather and winds and waves of circumstance.