What is a godly way of working through suffering? This article begins by discussing a treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, yet it goes beyond promoting certain techniques by encouraging biblical ways of examining pain and suffering.
This article offers a few practical pointers about confession of sin: confess it early, confess it to one another, and at times, sit among the weeds to learn from them.
Do you notice how many times the Lord in Scripture commands his people to remember the things he has done for them? Our fallen nature results in us being plagued with spiritual amnesia, with forgetting who God is and what he commands of us. This article calls the believer to remember God's Word and works, and thereby be encouraged.
Learning to preach the gospel to yourself is important for every Christian. It is important for your Christian life and pursuing holiness.
This article is about seeking God daily through personal devotions, prayer, and church attendance.
Memorizing Scripture is important for every Christian. This article provides two benefits of Scripture memorization and two techniques for Scripture memorization.
This article discusses from 1 John four fruits of confession of your sins.
Do you want to know how you can guard your relationship with God? The article provides nine ways.
Do you want to know how to confess your sins to God? This article discusses four ways.
The world in which we live is obsessed with healthy bodies, while it ignores caring for the health of the soul. The article discusses the vanity of focus only on our earthly bodies in contrast to the great gain that comes through healthy souls.
Self-examination, when done well, will lead to spiritual growth and joy. Here are eight questions you need to ask yourself in your spiritual examination.
How is your spiritual life? Are you showing spiritual growth? How do you know if you are growing? This article provides twelve questions you can use for your spiritual examination.
Forgiveness is the soil in which spiritual fruits and divine blessings are cultivated. This article explains that extending forgiveness to others brings great blessings upon the Christian life.
How do you become spiritually fit? You need healthy spiritual habits. This article lists four ways to build such habits.
This article underlines the joy that comes from confession of sin. It shows from passages like Psalm 103 the power of God's cleansing work.
This article considers the value of times of silence in the life of a Christian. Silence exposes the soul, confronts the voices that we face throughout our life, teaches us to listen, and tests our need for noise. The author calls Christians to embrace the quiet.
How should we think about the promises of God? God's promises should be received by faith. However, this article explains the difference between living by faith and taking risks.
This article provides suggestions for eliminating digital distractions in our lives in order to develop our walk with the Lord. It suggests to cultivate a deep walk through time in God's Word, in prayer, by making time for people and corporate worship, and by knowing what is truly important.
This article discusses one approach to memorizing books of the Bible, and how to retain them in memory.
This article discusses the importance of self-discipline in the Christian life, as we conform to Christ. The author argues that the only road to godliness is through the practice of the spiritual disciplines.
Growing in grace is what is expected of every Christian. How do you see your Christian growth and that you are becoming a mature Christian? This article explains that one of the signs of spiritual growth is seen in the extent to which you grow in your knowledge of sin in your life.
Mortification of sin can happen when you see sin for what it is. This article discusses five motivations for mortifying sin.
Every Christian sins, so every Christian needs to ask forgiveness. Yet how we ask forgiveness speaks to the quality of our repentance. This article mentions five ways we can evaluate whether our repentance is sincere or not.
This article provides some scriptural principles on how we are to give and receive commendation: praise is not for ourselves but for others, we must guard against all forms of flattery, and we must learn to honour others in the Lord.
Is there a condition to forgiving? This article argues that Christians are called to forgive as God forgave them. Therefore the condition of forgiveness is repentance.
Self-watch is the responsibility God charges every believer with. Such self-watching is in agreement with 1 Timothy 4:16. The article explains.
Sound doctrine is essential to the Christian life. Therefore, every Christian has the responsibility to train himself in sound doctrine. How do you do such a training? This article discusses three means God has provided.
Serving one another as Christians should be our desire. However, at times we do not know how to minister to others even when we want to. This article offers five ways you can serve others.
The biblical command for self-examination necessitates introspection. This article explains the purpose, pattern, danger, and duty of introspection.
Whether it be devotion to family or personal devotions, Christians should honour the virtue of devotion. This article explains the purpose, pattern, danger and duty of devotion.
How to lead a Bible study? This article looks at the role of the leader in a small groups Bible study, and gives practical tips on leading the study. It also looks at common problems that arise during a Bible study.
The only way to avoid the trap of self-righteousness is to always remember that the entirety of the Christian life is that of repentance. This article will explain.
For the soul to be healthy, the Christian must practice rejoicing, praying, and thanksgiving (spiritual exercises).
Some things are worth repeating, that they might not be forgotten. The book of Proverbs uses repetition to teach us the importance of correction and hungering after wisdom, the danger of legalism, the value of Christian friendship, the need for sexual purity, and the reality of eternal life.
This article discusses Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, a forty-day block that ends with Easter. It explains why it is worthwhile for Christians to observe this day in the church calendar.
Formation of a Christian character includes cultivation of spiritual disciplines and exercises. Hughes' point of departure is Paul’s encouragement to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:7. Paul calls Timothy to “train yourself to be godly.” In Chapter 1 Hughes takes a look at what this training entails.
Christians are entrusted with the word of God. This article makes a plea to believers to treat God's word with respect and honour by reading and obeying it.
This essay is about spiritual formation, spirituality, or personal transformation in the presence of God. Scorgie understands spirituality to be about experiencing the Triune God in a personally transforming way. He argues that intimacy with the holy God is necessarily purging and sanctifying.
This essay offers an analysis of the theology and structure of evangelical spirituality. It also reviews the present practice of spirituality in the light of contemporary trends. It wants to give a critical review of the practice and sources of evangelical spirituality, in order to show the strengths and weaknesses of evangelical spirituality. It also wants to determine whether other traditions of spirituality are compatible with it, and how they might be used to enrich it.
This article considers the discipline of self-examination.
Christianity is not a Sunday-only issue. It is a daily matter. This article gives eight practical things to do in your daily Christian life.
How does the Bible function in Christian spirituality and spiritual exercises? The article argues that the Bible's potential to facilitate an encounter with God is underestimated. The author reflects on the way Psalm 119 relates to the believer. The psalm is acknowledged as acting upon the reader and is not seen merely as a passive object of study. The article argues for a more central place for the Bible in spiritual practice and makes suggestions for how to put this into practice.
The author reflects on the true meaning of Christian brotherly love by comparing it to the love between a husband and wife. By referring to 1 John 3:16-18, she emphasizes that love is an action and not simply an emotion, and that it is based on commitment.
This article discusses how the second greatest commandment is like the first one. By quoting Matthew 5:43-45, it also explains what Jesus meant when he commanded us to love our neighbour as ourselves. The discussion of these questions is centred on the teaching of man as created in God's image.
