Worldly ways

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Back to the book “UNFASHIONABLE” by Tullian Tchividijian, kept near my reading chair in hopes of finishing it soon….

A worldly way of thinking is any mind-set 9781601420855mthat, unconciously or consciously, eliminates God and his revealed truth (the Bible) from how we approach life. the biblical notion of worldliness is a sleepiness of the soul in which the status, pleasures, comforts, and cares of the world appear solid, stunning, and affecting while the truths of Scripture become abstractions — unable to grip the heart or guide our everyday activities.

Let’s awaken and arouse our hearts and minds with the Word of God and prayer, to fend off this fiend of worldliness!

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A Pastor’s heart

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The Pastor Emeritus of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois — Kent Hughes — has always been a help to me when I’ve heard him speak or read his many books and commentaries. He shares an insight about ministry which I have found to be true, but could not express nearly so well…

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“To be a true minister to men is always to accept new happiness and new distress…The man who gives himself to other men can never be a wholly sad man; but no more can he be a man of unclouded gladness. To him shall come with every deeper consecration a before untested joy, but in the same cup shall be mixed a sorrow that it was beyond his power to feel before.”

— Philip Brookes
(quoted in R Kent Hughes, Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome)