Sublime

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

The secret of depending on God’s Spirit is to be incessantly in prayer. Pray about your decisions. Pray about your needs. Pray about your interests. Pray about your schedule. Pray about problems you are facing. Pray about people you are going to meet. Pray about purchases. Pray about everything. That is what it means to “abide” — to be aware that G

God Uses Circumstances God’s ideal way of changing us is to have us read the Bible to find out how we should live and then depend on his indwelling Spirit to enable us to do it. Unfortunately, most of us are stubborn, and we don’t change that easily. So God brings in a third tool to work on us — circumstances. Problems, pressures, heartaches, diffi

Jesus gave the church a simple three-step process: “If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him — work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you have made a friend. If he won’t listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again. If he still won’t listen, tell the church.”

When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

He makes sense of our life and our commitments in a world that thinks what we are doing is naivete at best and folly at worst. He has turned our world upside down.

Wilberforce himself wrote a book called 'Practical Christianity' challenging Christians of the day to turn their faith into action believing all Christians should use their time to “find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate.” Simply putting the LAW OF CHRIST into effect by loving God and o