5 to Live By: 5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
Your Heart Matters More Than Your History
Kevin DeYoung strikes a very needed balance in his post that explores David’s Powlison’s (balanced) understanding of heart and history. Both men, while understanding with compassion the importance of the past, explain with insight the role of the heart. For example, Powlison notes, “Knowledge of a person’s history may be important for many reasons (compassion, understanding, knowledge of characteristic temptations), but it never determines the hearts inclinations.” And DeYoung summarizes, “According to the Scriptures, the most important stuff in life flows inexorably from the human heart, not from our human histories.” Read both quotes in context in Your Heart Matters More Than Your History.
A Warped Worldview
Al Mohler tackles the subject of yet another negative result of pornography. Read his analysis of the research in A Warped Worldview: Another Moral Effect of Pornography.
Biblical Counseling and the Great Commission
Is “counseling” even in the Bible? How do we make a biblical case for the importance of biblical counseling? In The Great Commission Is a Great Place to Begin to Understand Biblical Counseling, David Powlison explains:
At a key juncture in my growth as a counselor, I realized that “biblical counseling” is not just about “counseling,” per se, but about Jesus’ final call to make disciples. Counseling is intrinsic to remaking people. Discipleship means to remake marred, distracted, and distorted men, women, and children into followers of Jesus.
13 Resources on Finances and Debt-Reduction
Paul Tautges continues his excellent series of biblical counseling resources with Resources on Finances and Debt-Reduction.
“Carnal Christians” and Pastoral Ministry
“Carnal Christians”—is the phrase even a legitimate biblical category? Pastor Brian Croft explores that important question and the important question: How Does a Pastor Deal with Carnal Christians in the Church?
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