- Follow Wisdomforlife on WordPress.com
Categories
-
- 1,831,810 (welcomed visits)
Blogroll
- Arts & Letters
- Audio Journal (Mars Hill)
- Beyond Religion
- Books and Culture
- Claremont Institute
- Credenda
- Culture
- David B. Hart
- Encyclopedia of Western Theology
- Ethics and Public Policy
- ETS
- Evangelical Outpost
- Evangelical Philosophical Society
- Evangelical Textual Criticism
- FaithWorld
- Great Resources
- Heritage Foundation
- Institue for Science
- James K.A. Smith
- John Owen
- Journals for Biblical Studies
- Koinonia
- Mere Comments
- Monergism
- Moo
- Nine Marks
- One Place: Listen in
- Online Journals
- Operation World
- Peacemakers
- Philosophy (Christian)
- Plantinga
- Probe
- Questions
- Questions about Creation
- Questions about Creation 2
- Reasonable Faith
- Reformed Perspectives
- Relevant
- Resource counseling
- Science and Religion
- Spurgeon
- The Briefing
- thecssr
- Themelios Journal
- Theos
- theotherjournal
- Westminster Confession
- Witherspoon Institute
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
- World
- Worship House
- Yale Center
Creeds of the Faith
- Apostles' Creed
- Athanasian Creed (500 AD)
- Baptist Confession (1689)
- Belgic Confession (1561)
- Biblical Creeds
- Canons of Dordt
- Council of Chalcedon (451 AD)
- Council of Orange (529 AD)
- Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
- London Baptist Confession (1644)
- Nicene Creed (381 A.D.)
- Nottingham Statement (1977)
- Philadelphia Confession of Faith (1742)
- Scottish Confession (1560)
- Westminister Confession
- Westminster Shorter Catechism
Tag Archives: Jesus
Restoring glory to the ordinary
Have you noticed how easily discontentment destroys joy and gratitude? I fear that the repeated emphasis on being radical for God can also give people the misguided feeling that the ordinary is either boring or some form of compromise. Let’s restore glory to the ordinary! Continue reading
Posted in Glory, Honor, Jesus Christ, Meaning in life, purpose
Tagged Ambition, Glory, Jesus, Meaning of life, Purpose, Servanthod, work
2 Comments
Why so many names?
The New Testament uses more than 100 titles for Jesus. Why so many titles? Choose one name each day and mediate on the meaning. This would be a great way to worship Christ and get to know Him better. Continue reading
Posted in Birth of Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, Deity of Jesus, Jesus Christ
Tagged Christ, Christmas, Jesus, Names of Christ
Leave a comment
Judge not, lest you be judged.
What exactly did Jesus mean when he spoke these words?
Was he advocating a mind your own business policy?
Was he forbidding all judgments about the actions of others? Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Antagonists, Church Leadership, Church membership, Conflict, Confrontation, Criticism, Debatable Matters, Difficult people, Discernment, Discrimination, Elders, Ethics, Guidelines for living, Humility, Jesus Christ, John R. W. Stott, John Stott, Judging others, Leadership, Legalism, Life of a pastor, Local Church, Mercy, Morality, Parenting, Sin, Slandered, Speech, Tolerance, Truth, Wisdom
Tagged Bible, Christianity, Jesus, Judge not
1 Comment
What does God do for your self-image?
How do I see myself? How does faith in God change the way I view my life? Continue reading
Posted in Attitude, Blessed by God, Christian worldview, Christianity, Conceit, Counseling, Fools, Freedom, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Grace, Greatness, Honor, Humility, Jesus Christ, Kingdom, Legalism, Mercy, Narcissism, Parenting, Pharisees, Poor in spirit, Pride, Prodigal son, Psychology, Religion-not the answer, Repentance, Self esteem, Self love, Spiritual Detox, Spiritual transformation, True Christianity?, Walking with God
Tagged Bible, Christ, God, Gospel, Jesus, Salvation
1 Comment
Worship in praise!
John did not allow his difficult circumstances to dictate his belief in the love of Christ for him. Rather, he saw what we need to see: that in the death of Christ on the cross we have an active, historic, objective evidence of God’s love that is as real and yet greater than all the tragedies of life that seem to deny His love for us. Continue reading