WORLDVIEW: Initially, the social evangelists talk about the violence of the gun, not the man wielding it. Then they placed morality on the gun rather than the man. Lastly, they give the weapon the ability to tempt a human being. Guns can cause us to sin by exacerbating, tempting, and baiting us to pick them up and shoot someone.
James 4:1-3 debunked this argument a long time ago when he addressed the source of our anger. These verses read as though they came out of today’s newspaper. According to James, the gun did not exacerbate, tempt, or bait the killer to kill. He murdered because there was something he wanted but could not get, so he chose to murder. WATCH:
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The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
