Do you get angry about the right things? Do you express your anger in the right way? How long does your anger last? How controlled is your anger? What motivates your anger? Is your anger “primed and ready” to respond to another person’s habitual sins? What is the effect of your anger These questions were…
The heart causes of anger from James 4:1-3 are… Entrenched, battling desires and pleasures. What desires are warring in your heart? Unmet ruling wants and desires. What’s ruling your heart? Coveting and envy. What are you grasping and greedy for? Selfish motives (even for good things). What’s the real reason you want what you want?
What is assurance? A positive declaration intended to give confidence; a promise. “he gave an assurance that work would not recommence until Wednesday” synonyms: word of honor, word, promise, pledge, vow, avowal, oath, bond, undertaking, guarantee, commitment “you have my assurance” That being said, what is the ground of all human assurance before God? What assurance do we have that our sins are forgiven? Is it contingent…
People never say, please listen I’m about to share a significant moment in my past OR please listen I’m about to reveal the motives of why I think a particular way or why I did something — Paul David Tripp For that reason, a person needs to be skilled in asking questions in order to…
People never say, please listen I’m about to share a significant moment in my past OR please listen I’m about to reveal the motives of why I think a particular way or why I did something — Paul David Tripp For that reason, a person needs to be skilled in asking questions in order to…
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission give five principles of community-based, gospel-centered, mutual pastoral care that are very helpful in answering the question, “What does everyday pastoral care look like?” And just as a preface, “pastoral care is not the sole responsibility of pastors anymore than evangelism is the sole…
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis in Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission give five principles of community-based, gospel-centered, mutual pastoral care that are very helpful in answering the question, “What does everyday pastoral care look like?” And just as a preface, “pastoral care is not the sole responsibility of pastors anymore than evangelism is the sole…
Joshua Harris wrote a fantastic little book entitled Stop Dating The Church: Fall In Love With The Family Of God, where he walks through the beauty of the local church and the expectation that God puts forth in His Word that believers be connected to a local church. To that end, here are ten questions he gives to…
Why do we tend to live in the casual and superficial rather than the deep and personal regarding relationships? Busyness traps us into having superficial, casual conversations We buy into the lie that we are unique and struggle in ways that one else does We prefer darkness rather than light – we find the searching…
Why do we tend to live in the casual and superficial rather than deep and personal regarding relationships? Busyness traps us into having superficial, casual conversations We buy into the lie that we are unique and struggle in ways that one else does We prefer darkness rather than light – we find the searching light…
Theology Along the Way 