Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God (1 John 4:1, NLT). Have you heard of Jordan Peterson? If not, you probably will soon. Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian psychiatrist lauded as a […]
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And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds (Ephesians 4:23, ESV). Our thinking has a default mode. I’m not talking about daydreaming, as we all have a “spirit” of the mind. Some have a negative spirit, others a lustful spirit, and some an angry spirit. And I’m not talking about demonic possession, but the
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And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables (John 2:15, ESV). Jesus drove the money-changers out of Herod’s temple. First, there was Solomon’s temple destroyed by the Babylonians, then a rebuilt
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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6, ESV). Jesus is the Prince of Peace. He is not the Prince of anxiety, doubt, or fear. For years, I’ve struggled to keep the
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Genesis is the beginning. . . In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1, ESV). Revelation is the end. . . Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away (Revelation 21:1). There are many similarities between the Book of Genesis and the
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Protect my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the secret discussion of evildoers (Psalm 64:1b-2a, NASB). In 1 Samuel 16, Samuel the prophet anoints the shepherd boy David as king of Israel. David is fifteen years old. In 2 Samuel 5, the elders of Israel came together to proclaim David as King of
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18a, ESV). The Bible teaches general grace for everyone, and we must grow in this grace. The Bible also explains that grace gets personal — that each of us has a grace/gift combination unique to us. The word for grace is
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. . .Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7, ESV). My mind can spin into uncontrollable imagining scenarios. The scenarios rarely happen in reality, but nevertheless, my mind adds anxiety to the spinning. My wife has a simple solution. She says, “You don’t know what’s going to happen, so
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14, KJV). Hyperlinked to. . . Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,
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It doesn’t matter what others think of you, and it also doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. What matters is what God thinks of you. . . How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! (Psalm 139:17-18a, NLT) We
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