Hunting Tiger Woods…

Some biblical thinking on one (sad) current event….
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Hunting Tiger Woods
By C.J. Mahaney (here)
Tiger Woods wants his privacy back.
He wants the media entourage to disappear from his life.
He wants to be left alone so he can manage his personal problems in private.
Not a chance.
The story began unfolding in the early hours [...]

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How families currently function

Today’s “Pastor’s Briefing” email (from Focus on the Family) included the following. Some is encouraging (not as bad as I feared), but overall it is pretty sad…
[my comments are inserted within the brackets]
Families Still Eating Together
According to a new poll commissioned by The Associated Press, 60% of those who live with families said [...]

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Is jesting a virtue?

Thomas Manton wisely said,
“The praise of a Christian is not in the wittiness, but in the graciousness of his conversation. That which is Aristotle’s virtue is made a sin with Paul* (foolish jesting). You should rather be refreshing one another with what experiences you have had of the Lord’s grace; that is [...]

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Worldly ways

Back to the book “UNFASHIONABLE” by Tullian Tchividijian, kept near my reading chair in hopes of finishing it soon….
A worldly way of thinking is any mind-set that, unconciously or consciously, eliminates God and his revealed truth (the Bible) from how we approach life. the biblical notion of worldliness is a sleepiness of the soul [...]

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Manton: Knowledge & effect

” We are apt to abuse our knowledge. Saving [spiritual] knowledge makes us more humble; but carnal [sinful] knowledge more proud. … The more we know God or ourselves by a divine light, the more humble we shall be. … When Adam’s eyes were opened he ran into the bushes, he was ashamed; [...]

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“He shall not be afraid of evil tidings”

Are you afraid of getting bad news? Commenting on Psalm 112:7 (above), the great Charles H Spurgeon, in his fine Morning & Evening devotional book, writes this….

Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have [...]

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Basketball Hall of Fame lessons

“Be like David, not like Mike,” writes Voddie Bauchman as he contrasts the recent Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speeches of David Robinson and Michael Jordan. More:
Modern American sports serve as an incubator for the self-centeredness that resides in each of us. The better one performs, the harder it is to avoid “the big-head.”
I [...]

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For sale?

The gospel cannot be a product that the church sells because there are no consumers for it. When we find consumers, we will find that what they are interested in buying, on their own terms, is not the gospel.

– David Wells, author of ABOVE ALL EARTHLY POWERS

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Avoid culture’s cynical mindset

The opposite of a childlike spirit is a cynical spirit. Cynicism is, increasingly, the dominant spirit of our age. Personally, it is my greatest struggle in prayer. If I get an answer to prayer, sometimes I’ll think, It would have happened anyway. Other times I’ll try to pray but wonder if [...]

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Just a book, or the Word of God?

One sign that you are a real Christian is that you see the Bible not just as an old book, but as the very Word of God.
I clearly remember the days of my youth, when I viewed the Bible as merely a book — I read it sparingly (mostly in Sunday School class), [...]

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