Tag: Personal
For simpletons turn away from me—to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency. But all who listen to me will live in peace, untroubled by fear of harm.” — Proverbs 1:31-32 (NLT) My own life philosophy is shaped by the Bible, there is no denying it. While I consider it a fairly simple outlook on life, there comes the occasion where the Bible’s simplicity catches me by surprise. So I ask, “Is it really that simple?” Yet, the incredible theme of the Bible metanarrative answers with a resounding, “Yes!” The life found in its pages is simple. Not naive,…
Cover to Cover Reading: Deuteronomy 30:1-32:47 Focus: Deuteronomy 30:11-20 The society we live in finds itself dissatisfied with rules, structures, and anything else really that limits their “freedom”. Human nature has never been satisfied with any of these settings and have always sought to break out from them so that they might break new ground and find a new experience of life which they could not have under the old, restricted “regime”. And yet, the cycle continues as these new experiences find themselves subjected to the need for order, structure and form…seriously, after millennia past we still haven’t learnt.
Burwood Community Presbyterian Church Scripture Passage: Mark 1:14-45 Mark’s Gospel: Living in the Kingdom
James 1:12 As our faith is tested, proven and set in perspective, James then says: Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James seems to bind together the various things that he has been talking about in this sentence. The need for faith to be tested and proven; seen in the true light of godly perspective. These James has covered in his previous verses. After all these things, James says, one is then approved through the…
