Tag: Desiring
-
The Fiercely Female Heroine | Needing God
[ad_1] What’s a female heroine like? If we let fashionable media information us, the brave lady is a person in disguise, felling armies with the brute drive of her (seductively clad) 140-pound body. The feminist heroine by no means tires to claim, to any and each man, “Something you are able to do, I can…
-
Is Your Hospitality Christian? | Wanting God
[ad_1] It’s no small secret that Christianity and hospitality go hand and hand. “Contribute to the wants of the saints and search to indicate hospitality” (Romans 12:13). “Present hospitality to 1 one other with out grumbling” (1 Peter 4:9). “Don’t neglect to indicate hospitality to strangers” (Hebrews 13:2). Like a knock on the door or…
-
Prayer Dies With out Delight | Wanting God
[ad_1] These two issues — glorifying God and having fun with God — don’t all the time coincide on this life, however in the long run they should be the identical factor. We might pray for the approaching of God’s kingdom, but when we don’t take pleasure in God supremely with all our being, we…
-
American Religions | Needing God
[ad_1] ABSTRACT: Many American Christians dwell amongst Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, however maybe few perceive what distinguishes them from historic Christianity. The origins of those teams within the non secular ferment of nineteenth-century America illumines each their trajectories and the doctrines they got here to embrace that place them exterior the bounds of orthodox Christianity.…
-
Awake to Jesus | Wanting God
[ad_1] Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is perhaps some of the pretty odes to an easier, slower lifestyle. Thoreau, bone weary of metropolis dwelling, left the whole lot and moved into the wilderness to take pleasure in solitude and work along with his fingers. He waxes eloquent about actually attending to nature. In spite of everything,…
-
Outpray God’s Goodness | Wanting God
[ad_1] I want I might all the time tackle God in prayer as Paul did: “Now to him who is ready to do much more abundantly than all that we ask or assume . . .” (Ephesians 3:20). If I extra constantly believed that mine was a God to reply effectively past my asking, I…
-
The God over Geopolitics | Needing God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript Because the 12 months attracts to an in depth, so too does our Bible-reading schedule. Due to everybody who joined us in 2024 within the Navigators Bible Studying Plan. This late within the 12 months, we discover ourselves within the last chapters of Revelation, tomorrow studying Revelation 17 collectively, a chapter on…
-
On Creepy, Darker Media | Wanting God
[ad_1] Audio Transcript I’ll be the primary to confess that it’s slightly area of interest for us to talk to writers. Most subscribers to this podcast will not be writers. I do know that. However due to Pastor John’s prolific writing ministry, we get numerous nice questions from writers — and actually from all kinds…
-
‘You Shall Absolutely Die’? | Wanting God
[ad_1] ABSTRACT: God instructed Adam that he would “certainly die” if he ate from the forbidden tree. He and Eve didn’t instantly return to the mud upon consuming the fruit, however they did expertise demise in different types. Their instant disgrace and alienation from God, together with different descriptions of the curse past Genesis 3,…
-
What Makes Jesus Marvel? | Needing God
[ad_1] What makes you pause, stare, admire? What leaves you in awe? Your reverence reveals what you’re keen on and who you might be. What amazes us speaks. The Gospels whisper secrets and techniques about what astonishes males. Their pages gasp with marvel, fill with emojis, punctuate with exclamation factors. We get to see women…