It would be challenging to pick Jesus out of a crowd of Israelites because He was so much like them (Matthew 26:48). He looked like everyone else. Others accused Him of sin because he hung out with unsavory people (Matthew 19:14; Luke 7:37–39).
It becomes confusing and subjective when style preferences are the criteria for discerning worldliness. Jesus hung out with His world, ate with His world, drank with His world, and dressed like His world. But Christ was not worldly. https://lifeovercoffee.com/legalism-is-a-fear-based-culture-that-leads-to-a-complex-life/
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/
