Kingdom Living By Chester DeLagneau June 7, 2015 OLD TESTAMENT Kingdom Ethics There is only one true kingdom and that is the kingdom of God. Christ came and inaugurated the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is paradoxically both here and not yet. That is, the kingdom has been activated but not fully actualized….
God does not tolerate His children. He values their inherent worth. We are not His pet projects to be fixed. We are His lifelong lovers. God knows us by name and clothes us with His righteousness so we can enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. This is the Good News! Sadly, some christians today do…
As Believers we are called to “rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep” (Rom 12:15, ESV). It is easy for us to celebrate with those who are joyful, jealousy and envy aside. But to sympathetically mourn with those who are suffering is to slow down and show love. This suffering love is…
Fear stifles creativity and productivity. When we focus on our fears we unconsciously activate our sympathetic nervous system, which stimulates activities associated with the fight or flight response. This distress signal to our autonomic nervous system takes blood away from our extremities, including our brain, and rushes it to our vital organs. When this happens,…
Happiness is not contrary to character, but complementary to it. Happiness, properly understood, is not merely the thin, shallow concept of an elated emotion that changes minute by minute, but the state of wellbeing (shalom) that one lives virtuously, day by day. This Christian concept of happiness is the result of sanctifying one’s character through…
We need to put on the WHOLE armor of God! The belt of truth w/o the breastplate of righteousness causes cognitive and spiritual dissonance, since it’s possible to speak of God’s truth w/o living in Christ’s righteousness. Obviously, if we have been wounded in spiritual warfare we can neither enjoy God’s peace nor be properly…
Nietzsche called Christianity a ‘herd morality’, a ‘slave mentality’. I couldn’t agree more. Except, Christians are not shepherdless sheep. We have a Good Shepherd who willingly lays down his life for his sheep and has the power to take it up again. If this God is our Shepherd and we are his sheep, would we…
“Our minds must be set on: (1) Christ (Phil 2:5) (2) Humility (Rm 12:3, 16) (3) Discipline (2 Tm 1:7) (4) Excellent things (Phil 4:8) (5) Action (1 Pt 1:13) (6) Heavenly things (Col 3:1-2) The spiritual battle is won in the mind!”
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Cor 10:5) Our thought life matters to God! It is (partly) how we show Him we love Him and how we set ourselves apart for Him in…
When we focus on our circumstances, God offends us and we offend Him. But when we focus on God, we offend our circumstances by being victorious over them. Hallelujah! We have the victory in Christ Jesus!