It is Christ who is to be exalted, not our feelings. We will know Him by obedience, not by emotions.
02833 – Knowing Christ
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02801 – What about Emotions?
Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters.
02765 – Spiritual Trauma
Spiritual trauma is when difficult emotions are spiritualized and you are taught to fear and repress them: the resulting dissociation is taken as a sign of spiritual maturity or moral superiority.
02236 – Three Things for Each Day
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.” “To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move...
01382 – Seeing Rightly
Good religion, however, is always about seeing rightly: "The lamp of the body is the eye; if your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light," as Jesus says in Matthew 6:22. How you see is what you see. And to see rightly is to be able to be fully...
01168 – What is the Purpose of a Choir?
What is the purpose of a choir? It's not to perform difficult music before a silent and intimidated (or irritated) congregation. It's not there to impress the faithful. It's there to encourage the faithful to find their voices to praise God in his holiness. It is...
01067 – The Gift of Pentecost
I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The...
01027 – Revolutionary Love
“Love” is more than a feeling. Love is a form of sweet labor: fierce, bloody, imperfect, and life-giving—a choice we make over and over again. If love is sweet labor, love can be taught, modeled, and practiced. This labor engages all our emotions. Joy is the gift of...
00937 – Healing Prayer
Healing prayer is part of the normal Christian life. It should not be elevated above any other ministry in the community of faith, nor should it be undervalued; rather it should be kept in proper balance. It is simply a normal aspect of what it means to live under the...
00904 – Additional Ways to “Take God’s Name in Vain”
It amazes me how casually I can sing songs of deep, almost heroic commitment. It’s as if I think, “As long as I’m singing, the words I say don’t really matter. God knows it’s just a song.” While my mind wanders I promise to bow before the Lord, to proclaim His name to...