Our natural drifts away from godliness

Here's a great warning and encouragement to be proactive in our Christian life from Don Carson.


One of the most striking evidences of sinful human nature lies in the universal propensity for downward drift.

In other words, it takes thought, resolve, energy, and effort to bring about reform.

In the grace of God, sometimes human beings display such virtues. But where such virtues are absent, the drift is invariably toward compromise, comfort, indiscipline, sliding disobedience and decay that advances, sometimes at a crawl and sometimes at a gallop, across generations.

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, and obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.

We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;

we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom;

we drift toward superstition and call it faith.

We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;

we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism;

we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

Taken from D.A. Carson, For the Love of God, volume 2, Jan. 23 entry:

It's a women's issue too

Make it Count - Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott live via webcast

Here's a special opportunity to hear from our political leaders in view of this years federal election.
Crossroads will be hosting a webcast open to all from 7pm on June 21 in the Copland Theatre, ANU (end of Kingsley St).

Creative ideas for more generosity

During last Sunday's sermon on Malachi 3 Dave encouraged us to think creatively about how we could be more generous and how we could actually enjoy God more by giving to his agenda and cares in our world. So he encouraged us to be creatively sacrificial and suggested that simply by not buying coffee and lunch so regularly each week, it could make such a difference in our capacity to give.

So imagine not buying coffee or lunch for just 3 days of the working week. Very conservatively, even after the expense of making your own salad and sandwiches at home (shock horror I know for some of us), that would mean we had at least $30 extra to give. That's $120 a month, a for 48 working weeks that's $1440 a year that can be used for gospel blessing. That's huge.

And that's not to say we can't enjoy lunch or coffee, or that working lunches are to be banned.....these are good things to be received with thankfulness to God. But as the Gospel excites us and fills our vision we'll actually enjoy making changes and sacrifice to avoid building treasures on earth in view of the wonders of heaven.

But forgoing buying lunches and coffee is one suggestion......what other ideas might people have in both big and small ways as to how we can avail ourselves of more generosity in the things of God?

Guilty feeling Christians?

The reality of guilt within the Christian life something we have all probably thought about. Sometimes we feel guilty when don't need to. Sometime we don't feel guilty when we certainly need to. Check out Kevin deYoung's excellent little article that I think really helps in this whole area.

Are Christians Meant to Feel Guilty All the Time?

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Simply God |

A great little article on understanding the attributes of God....well, trying to understand anyway...

Simply God | Culture analysis | Sydneyanglicans.net

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New TV show for Christian men.

I hope it's not just for Christian men...

New TV show for Christian men. | News stories | Sydneyanglicans.net

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The struggle Christians have with the homosexual debate

Here's an insightful article on why Christians always seem to come out as the losers in any debate on homosexuality.....and some helpful ways to steer things in more helpful directions.

Jennifer Knapp & Larry King: Why We Always Lose this Debate

The offence of the Prosperity Gospel

I mentioned briefly how repulsive prosperity theology is to the Christian gospel.

I haven't heard it argued against in a stronger or more confronting way than this.

The Rage against God

This looks really good.

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