After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. (Luke 5:27-28)
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1/20/15
1/19/15
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1John 2:5-6 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
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어리석인 일을 반복하지 않길
붙잡아 주세요. 채워 주세요.
1/17/15
God is love
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. . . There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1John 4:7, 18)
Lord, I want to know you more this year.
Please fill my heart with your love,
so I may not use others to satisfy my selfish desires
but truly love them and serve them.
1/15/15
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Christians, then, should expect to find nonbelievers who are much nicer, kinder, wiser, and better than they are. Why? Christian believers are not accepted by God because of their moral performance, wisdom, or virtue, but because of Christ's work on their behalf. Most religious and philosophies of life assume that one's spiritual status depends on your religious attainments. This naturally leads adherents to feel superior to those who don't believe and behave as they do. The Christian gospel, in any case, should not have that effect.
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, p. 20
1/14/15
Faith claims
Skeptics believe that any exclusive claims to a superior knowledge of spiritual reality cannot be true. But this objection is itself a religious belief. It assumes God is unknowable, or that God is loving but not wrathful, or that God is an impersonal force rather than a person who speaks in Scripture. All of these are unprovable faith assumptions. In addition, their proponents believe they have a superior way to view things. They believe the world would be a better place if everyone dropped the traditional religions' views of God and truth and adopted theirs. Therefore, their view is also an "exclusive" claim about the nature of spiritual reality. If all such views are to be discouraged, this one should be as well. If it is not narrow to hold this view, then, there is nothing inherently narrow about holding to traditional religious beliefs.
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, pp. 12-13
1/9/15
Unattractive churches
Jesus' teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, out churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did. If your churches aren't appealing to younger brothers, they must be more full of elder brothers than we'd like to think.
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller, pp. 18-19
The parable of two lost sons
. . . What did the older son most want? If we think about it we realize that he wanted the same thing as his brother. He was just as resentful of the father as was the younger son. He, too, wanted the father's goods rather than the father himself. However, while the younger brother went far away, the elder brother stayed close and "never disobeyed." That was his way to get control. His unspoken demand is, "I have never disobeyed you! Now you have to do things in my life the way I want them to be done."
The hearts of the two brothers were the same. Both sons resented their father's authority and sought ways of getting out from under it. They each wanted to get into a position in which they could tell the father what to do. Each one, in other words, rebelled--but one did so by being very bad and the other by being extremely good. Both were alienated from the father's heart; both were lost sons.
Do you realize, then, what Jesus is teaching? Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake.
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller, pp. 41-42
2015년,
1 나를 높이고자 하는 마음을 내려놓고
하나님을 깊이 알고 사랑하는 일에 최선을 다하길
2 사람을 섬기는 일이
의무나 나를 높이기 위함이 아닌
하나님의 마음에 합함으로,
예수님의 사랑으로 시작되길
3 나의 삶 전체가
사랑하는 하나님께 드리는 예배가 되길
The hearts of the two brothers were the same. Both sons resented their father's authority and sought ways of getting out from under it. They each wanted to get into a position in which they could tell the father what to do. Each one, in other words, rebelled--but one did so by being very bad and the other by being extremely good. Both were alienated from the father's heart; both were lost sons.
Do you realize, then, what Jesus is teaching? Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake.
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller, pp. 41-42
2015년,
1 나를 높이고자 하는 마음을 내려놓고
하나님을 깊이 알고 사랑하는 일에 최선을 다하길
2 사람을 섬기는 일이
의무나 나를 높이기 위함이 아닌
하나님의 마음에 합함으로,
예수님의 사랑으로 시작되길
3 나의 삶 전체가
사랑하는 하나님께 드리는 예배가 되길
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