Here are some thoughts about following Christ as men. You can use the Categories tab to find blog articles on various topics.
Twenty-six hundred years ago in the book, The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat." Our enemy is Satan, whom the Apostle, Peter, calls our Adversary. This article explains who Satan is, his role in the fall, descriptions of Satan in Scripture, Satan's opposition to your mission, and three of Satan's current strategies.
Do you ever feel like taking care of your daily responsibilities wears you out and doesn’t seem connected very much to your Christian faith? Afterall, other than maybe readying your Bible, 98% of what you do from wake up time until bed time is the same as non-Christians do. It is hard to see much spiritual significance in the daily grind. But, the Apostle Paul had a different view of the daily grind. He wrote, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Eph 2:10).
The passion that God intends to fuel our mission as Christ-followers is our awareness of Christ’s redemptive love for us. The Christian life is about offering ourselves to God in response to his redeeming love for us. The problem with the awareness of Christ’s redeeming love for me being the fuel for my mission is that most of the time I don’t particularly FEEL very loved. So God intentionally gives us portraits of this redemptive love in Scripture. This issue looks at the example of Hosea's love for Gomer