Therefore every time we sin, we are doing something that God hates. He hates our lustful thoughts, our pride and jealousy, our outburst of temper, and our rationalization that the end justifies the means. We need to be gripped by the fact that God hates all these things. We become so accustomed to our sins [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’
Our Peaceful Coexistence with Something God Hates
Posted in Bridges, Jerry, tagged Anger, God, Jealousy, Lust, Pride, Sin on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes God Will Change Us and Sometimes He Won’t
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Confess, God, God's Law, Sin on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Second, when we go to God, sometimes he begins to change us and to make us different than we were before we went to him. But you’ll get into trouble if you make this an absolute. If you believe that every time you confess sin (pointed out by the law) to God, then he automatically [...]
He Accepts Us No Matter How Dirty We Are
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged God, God's Throne on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First, when we go to God, he accepts us no matter how dirty we are. I can’t tell you the number of times I have crept into the throne room of God thinking, He’s going to really get me this time. I’m history. He will not accept me this time because I’ve been here like [...]
What Humility Is Not and What Humility Is
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Christians, God, Humility, Inferiority Complex on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Humility is not dishonesty. It does not baptize your inferiority complex, turning into a Christian asset. Neither does humility deny God’s grace in your life. Humility is simply knowing who you are and feeling comfortable with it. Humility is never lying to yourself about your gifts, the knowledge you have acquired, or the value God has [...]
What Should Be The Material of Our Witness
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Church, Freedom, God, Joy, Witness on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We hear a lot of talk in the church about the importance of our witness to the world. Our witness is important – but God does not call us to witness about our goodness or that we have it all together. We are to witness regarding the freedom and joy we have found in Christ.
- [...]
What God Won’t Do If You Belong to Him
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged God, Revelation, Wpiritual on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you have come to the place where you think you are wonderful and good and spiritual, when you really aren’t wonderful, and good and spiritual, you’re probably in for it. As Revelation reminds us, there is nothing worse than being wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked – except of course, not knowing that you [...]
The Gospel Is God’s Gift to Us
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Christians, God, Good News, Gospel on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The gospel (“good news”) is God’s gift to us – and yet somehow, in our efforts to be more than we can be, even when our motives were right, we have lost our way. We have become obsessive, bound, angry, and neurotic Christians.
- Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel, copyright [...]
Bad Stuff and The Love and Sovereignty of God
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Freedom, God, God's Love, God's Sovereignty on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the bad stuff in life comes from (or is allowed by) a monster God, I will continue to seethe with anger. If the bad stuff comes from a weenie God, I will tell him that he is wrong and that I won’t have anything to do with him anymore. But if the bad stuff [...]
What Kind of God is He Anyway?
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Cultural Agenda, Freedom, God, God's Nature, Political Agenda, Worship on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If we deduced the nature of God from those who say they worship him, we would never believe he could be the God who sets people free. We would think God was against freedom, violently opposed to laughter, and very, very serious. If we looked at his people, we would think that God had adopted [...]
Only God Performs True Miracles
Posted in Geisler, Norman L., Turek, Frank, tagged God, II Thessalonians 2, Matthew 24, Miracles, Satan on August 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In short, only God performs true miracles, Satan does counterfeit miracles. This is precisely what the Bible calls them in II Thessalonians 2:0 when Paul writes that “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders.” Of course, unless [...]
