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- Monday, Feb 24, 2025
- Dealing with Sin
- The tragic, inescapable reality of the believer’s life is that he or she will never totally and finally conquer sin. The Lord has transformed us, replaced our hearts, and reoriented our lives, but we still can’t completely escape the grip of sin.
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- Monday, Feb 24, 2025
- Dealing with Sin
- The tragic, inescapable reality of the believer’s life is that he or she will never totally and finally conquer sin. The Lord has transformed us, replaced our hearts, and reoriented our lives, but we still can’t completely escape the grip of sin.
- Friday, Feb 21, 2025
- The Lord's Negative Prodding
- The Lord employs a variety of methods to bring about repentance in the lives of His people. Last time we looked at three positive means He uses to prod believers away from sin and back to His righteous standard.
- Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025
- The Lord's Positive Prodding
- The constant war between our new nature in Christ and our old, sinful flesh is a recipe for spiritual inconsistency. Regardless of how long you’ve been saved or how much you’ve grown spiritually in that time, temptation to sin is always waiting around the corner (1 Peter 5:8).
- Monday, Feb 17, 2025
- The Genuine Article
- What is repentance? The literal Greek word, metanoia, has to do with changing your mind. But authentic repentance is much more than merely changing your opinion, your thought process, or your mood. It’s a complete spiritual about-face. And if it’s genuine, it will always result in a change of behavi...
- Friday, Feb 14, 2025
- Growing in Discernment
- How do you measure maturity? It is not a function of how old you are—society is dominated by multiple generations of immature adults who refuse to act their age. Maturity is tested by time, but it’s not a question of how long a person has lived. Rather, it’s determined by how wisely he or she lives....
- Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025
- Spirit-Powered Discernment
- True discernment is impossible without divine power. We need the true Discerner—the Holy Spirit—to lead us into all truth (John 16:13).
- Monday, Feb 10, 2025
- Following the Faithful
- Nobody wants to be led off a cliff. But that’s a very real possibility for anyone who follows the wrong leaders. Jesus said as much concerning the religious leaders of His time on earth: “They are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew 1...
- Friday, Feb 7, 2025
- The Deadly Dangers of Passive Discernment
- King Solomon was the epitome of discernment. Scripture declares that his wisdom “surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt” (1 Kings 4:30). Moreover, God granted him unsurpassed discernment: “Behold I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has be...
- Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025
- The Source and Supply of All Discernment
- If you could ask God for anything, what would that be? We may sometimes fantasize about that question, but for Solomon it was reality.
- Monday, Feb 3, 2025
- Discernment Demands Humility
- If we are driven by a yearning to be happy, healthy, affluent, prosperous, comfortable, and self-satisfied, we will never be discerning people. If our feelings determine what we believe, we cannot be discerning. If we subjugate our minds to some earthly ecclesiastical authority and blindly believe w...