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The justification we have in Christ has no similarity to the justification being sought in the world. It is rather the insanity of the futile mind that has corrupted the simplicity of the good news. source

The Spoonful

Posted Mon, 01/01/2001 - 01:00

The Spoonful contains what I call bite-sized portions of good news. Years ago, I decided to condense some of my longer articles into concise pieces for quick reading. I had planned on creating these shorter essays for many of my writings, but as usual, I didn't get very far along. In 2007, I resurrected the idea of the Spoonful as an alternative form of my much longer email-distributed Shoveletter.

Recent Spoonfuls

  • Questioning your Relationship with God? - June 19, 2010

    How often do you question your relationship with God? Maybe you assume you don't know how to have a relationship with him because you have been comparing what you think you don't have with what you think you ought to have, and what you think you ought to have is based upon a religious world that tells you what a relationship with God ought to look like. Just remember that the relationship Jesus had with his father while on earth appeared to the religious mind as something other than godly....

  • Is Faith Merely a Gamble? - June 11, 2010

    What makes believing in Christ different than believing in any other option? Of course, it's often said that the object of our faith is the only difference — and Christ is no doubt superior to anything people may trust in — but what if there is more than meets the eye to our assumptions regarding faith? I'm talking about how the word "faith" oftentimes describes little more than the taking of a chance, that is, a gamble. If we will only take a moment to consider how people claim to...

  • The Insanity of the Search for Justification - April 25, 2010

    We might shake our heads at mice that run non-stop on the wheels in their cages, but at least they get some exercise as they go nowhere. Humanity endlessly spins on a different kind of wheel. For we, the people, desire a satisfaction that only moves farther away with every empty-handed grasp. Man wants the world to revolve around himself, he wants to be applauded, he wants to be cleared of any and every fault, he wants to be proved right. He wants justification.

  • Being led by the Spirit - March 06, 2010
    However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you ... For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Romans 8:9,14

    While we often question what it is to be led by the Spirit, we so easily miss the fact that those who are born of God ARE BEING led by the Spirit of God. Just consider how often our behaviors cause us to conclude that we are in the flesh. But Paul was quite...