Protected: Journal – October 23, 2020
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"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
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There is no growth in the Christian life apart from discipline and self-control (“discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness”—1 Timothy 4:7). Spirituality is not instantaneous or haphazard; it is developed and refined. For many people, the word “discipline” reeks with negative connotations. We often associate it with tyranny, external restraint, legalism, and bondage. But …
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Illustration Imagine a pencil point touching a piece of paper. In the two-dimensional world of the flat paper, only the point of the pencil can be experienced. So it is with God and the spiritual world He inhabits, limited as we are to three dimensions, we can not fully understand God in all His dimensions. …
Paul begins this epistle with a biographical argument (1–2) that affirms the divine origin of his apostleship and his message of the gospel of grace in contrast to the distortion of the gospel by false teachers. He recounts how God gave him the message of justification by faith in Christ and how this was confirmed …