The Benefits of Affliction in the Psalms
[…] I daily dying to self and repenting of sin? Are there any idols in my heart—anything that I love more than Jesus?” Affliction can […]
Enduring Dark Providences
[…] toward us. Sometimes we do go through difficult trials so that the idols of our hearts are revealed and purged, but God always intends […]
A Conflict of Conscience
[…] people involved. After acknowledging the believer’s freedom to eat meat sacrificed to idols, Paul gives the following command to the Corinthian Christians: “Take care […]
The Church’s Role in Counseling You
[…] is the heart’s desire to remain in sin, to keep worshipping our idols while still trying to worship God (Matthew 6:24). We may be […]
Between Bethel and Dan
Clinically-Informed Biblical Counseling's Failed Attempt at Balance
[…] Solomon. The primary features of King Jeroboam’s sin were two golden calves, idols, to be worshiped as part of his newly constructed religion (1 […]
Delighting in God’s Word to Remedy Disordered Affections
[…] other sinful desire. As Calvin stated “man’s nature…is a perpetual factory of idols”.John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1.11.8 Our minds (our hearts) […]
Is It Sin or Is It Not?
Truth in Love 483
[…] And the Scriptures speak about that, whether we eat meat sacrificed to idols, right? But yet, we have to take into consideration how even […]
True Hope for Parkinson’s Disease
[…] we need to be still and know that he is God! Exposing Idols. For many, their jobs, their athletic abilities, homes, social status, or […]
Vanity or Body Image Problem?
[…] carnal, and the Jews turned from worshipping God to worshiping the Canaanite idols. Isaiah lived 700 years before Christ was born, and he prophesied […]
Taming Technology
[…] all that we do. Confidence What makes us confident? If we worship idols, we become like idols. If we worship God, we become like […]
Biblical Sorrow Without Sinful Complaining
[…] as three grace blockers. Jonah 2:8 says, “Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs.” That’s a shocking verse […]
The Weapons of Our Warfare
Destroying Strongholds
[…] small now make slaves of God’s people (Romans 6:16). Like the pagan idols raised up in the place of God (2 Kings 21) we […]