This article answers the following questions: What Does “Kicking Against The Pricks” Mean?What Does Repentance Mean?What Does “Having Their Conscience Seared With A Hot Iron” Mean?How Does God Guide Us Along His Path? Repentance is defined by Strong’s Dictionary as compunction, which is a word we don’t use much today, but it comes from the [...]
Archive for June, 2011
June 10 2011
Is Your Own Ability Your Greatest Asset?
Radical Quotes by David Platt (More Radical Quotes by David Platt) (Buy The Book) The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability … what we can accomplish when we believe ourselves and trust in ourselves … But the gospel has different priorities … die [...]
June 9 2011
Are You Operating In Your Own Strength?
Forgotten God Quotes (More Forgotten God Quotes) (Buy The Book) Without [the Holy Spirit], people operate in their own strength and only accomplish human-size results. When it comes down to it, many of us do not really want to be led by the Holy Spirit. Or, more fundamentally, many of us don’t want to be [...]
June 9 2011
Is The Holy Spirit Irrelevant In Your Life?
Forgotten God Quotes (More Forgotten God Quotes) (Buy The Book) Could it be that we’ve forgotten the One who distinguishes us from every religion and cult in the world? I think the fear of God failing us leads us to “cover for God.” This means we ask for less, expect less, and are satisfied with [...]
June 9 2011
Are You A Look Alike?
Forgotten God Quotes (More Forgotten God Quotes) (Buy The Book) Instead of speaking meaningfully and insightfully into the culture, we [believers] have capitulated and in many cases look no different from the world. We think about making our friends mad or not being accepted or being thought of as different or strange. But rarely (if [...]