An article giving consideration to a holistic approach to Christian counseling. Thought-provoking read, whether you entirely agree or not. A taste: Evangelicals have a significant stake in the decision-making nature of human beings. Terms like belief and unbelief, obedience and disobedience, are part of a biblical grammar of responsibility. Accountability and culpability are essential concepts [...]
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1 Cor 1.24, the Holy Ghost tells us that “Christ is the power of God, and the wisdom of God:” not the essential Wisdom of God, as he is the eternal Son of the Father (upon which account he is called “Wisdom” in the Proverbs, chap. 8.22-23); but as he is crucified, 1 Cor 1.23. [...]
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In On Communion with God, John Owen undertook to show Jesus Christ as the treasury of all true and divine wisdom in order to secure the affections of our hearts for Him. As there is much that Owen wrote worth setting before you, I will consign myself to “parts.” This is part 1: It is [...]
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Written in 1986, Created in God’s Image by Anthony Hoekema hits the proverbial nail on the head with the following “prophetical” paragraphs concerning the factors that threaten human values and the necessity of the Christian/biblical conception of man (I cannot agree more with much of this having watched an inordinate amount of news over the [...]
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In the past couple of weeks, the Lord has grabbed my heart for meditation upon four verses in particular: Genesis 6:5, Psalm 42:2, Isaiah 42:3, and Hebrews 12:14. Over the next couple of days, I hope to post some reflections upon them in that order. Genesis 6:5, “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man [...]
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“Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God’s majesty. – John Calvin
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