by Brian | Feb 9, 2016 | Monday Study Notes, Practical Spirituality, Spiritual Life
Last night we continued our series on Practical Spirituality, looking at how someone can live out the Christian life. Here are the notes: Last week we saw that the only way to truly be a follower of Jesus in our time is to have and live off of the power of God’s Holy...
by Brian | Feb 4, 2016 | Spiritual Life
Just before the new year I highlighted highlighted Mark Edwards’ thoughts on the passage of scripture in Mark chapter 9 which features Jesus teaching a distressed father about faith. A few verses after the one in that post, the disciples come to Jesus with a...
by Brian | Dec 28, 2015 | Spiritual Life
In Mark 9 the Holy Spirit gives us the record of what happened when a man brought Jesus a difficult and (humanly) hopeless situation–his son was possessed by a demon who was bent on destroying the boy. Jesus asked him how long it had been this way for the...
by Brian | Nov 10, 2015 | Monday Study Notes, Spiritual Life
Last night we continued out study through James’ letter. Here are the notes: James 4:13 -17 4:13 This is a picture of planning without reference to God. It assumes we have tomorrow. It is self assured: It declares what we’ll do, declares it will be successful....
by Brian | Sep 16, 2015 | Spiritual Life
The video above is footage of something I didn’t know existed until a couple days ago. It’s called an Aeolian Harp–which is a harp that is built outside, specially tuned, and then played only by the wind. That’s right–no one touches it....
by Brian | Jul 29, 2015 | Spiritual Life
In connection with last week’s study on maturity, here’s a passage from William R. Newell’s commentary on Hebrews. This is on Hebrews 5:12-14. He’s bringing a little fire: [How could the Hebrews be tempted to turn back from following Christ,]...
