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One of the many benefits of going to the Desiring God National Conference is the Book Store. Many treasures to mine there.
This year I picked up one treasure I could not put down. I read between every conference event. Total Truth:Study Guide Edition by Nancy Pearcy Crossway Books 2005. It is all about how thinking Biblically can transform us, our culture and the world.
From the Introduction p. 23
"Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Because we are made in God's image, we all seek to make sense of life. Some convictions are conscious, while others unconscious, but together they form a more or less consistent picture of reality. Human beings 'are incapable of holding purely arbitrary opinions or making unprincipled decisions,' writes Al Wolters... Because we are by nature rational and responsible beings, we sense that 'we need some creed to live by, some map by which to chart our course.'
The notion that we need such a 'map' in the first place grows out of human nature. The Marxist may claim that human behavior is ultimately shaped by human circumstances; the Freudian attributes everything to repressed sexual instincts; and the behavioral psychologist regards humans as stimulus response mechanisms. But the Bible teaches that the overriding factor in the choices we make is our ultimate belief or religious commitment. Our lives are shaped by the 'god' we worship-whether the God of the Bible or some substitute deity."
Rom 1:21"For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened."
Rom 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
The Absolute Love is a transformational love.
One of the many benefits of going to the Desiring God National Conference is the Book Store. Many treasures to mine there.
This year I picked up one treasure I could not put down. I read between every conference event. Total Truth:Study Guide Edition by Nancy Pearcy Crossway Books 2005. It is all about how thinking Biblically can transform us, our culture and the world.
From the Introduction p. 23
"Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Because we are made in God's image, we all seek to make sense of life. Some convictions are conscious, while others unconscious, but together they form a more or less consistent picture of reality. Human beings 'are incapable of holding purely arbitrary opinions or making unprincipled decisions,' writes Al Wolters... Because we are by nature rational and responsible beings, we sense that 'we need some creed to live by, some map by which to chart our course.'
The notion that we need such a 'map' in the first place grows out of human nature. The Marxist may claim that human behavior is ultimately shaped by human circumstances; the Freudian attributes everything to repressed sexual instincts; and the behavioral psychologist regards humans as stimulus response mechanisms. But the Bible teaches that the overriding factor in the choices we make is our ultimate belief or religious commitment. Our lives are shaped by the 'god' we worship-whether the God of the Bible or some substitute deity."
Rom 1:21"For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened."
Rom 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
The Absolute Love is a transformational love.
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