I hold several images in my mind that I use to motivate and guide me every day. My favorite for the moment is Jesus walking on the water, which I will explain momentarily. First let’s talk briefly about images. All of us make and hold images in our minds that we use to evaluate and [...]
This post is the ninth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“.
Review
God created us to glorify Him by expressing His character through our lives. He made us to be like Him, in His image and likeness so that we would be compatible for relationship with Him, complete only in Him and able to communicate with Him. [...]
This post is the eighth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“.
Review
The Transformation Workbook (TW) is a study about how God changes a lost sinner into the likeness of His Son Jesus Christ. The study encompasses God’s purpose, our created pattern, how we process information to be reprogrammed, the great problems caused by the fall of [...]
Continue reading about Section 3 Processing Life 3A Trust Bonds
Friends, If you are a reguar reader of these articles, you have by now realized that I have taken a break to celebrate the birth of our Savior with my family. The new year is ahead and I am excited about what I am going to learn this year. I will be sharing these lessons [...]
In the last few articles, we have discussed the church’s credibility problem. Allow me to give a short review to summarize the essence of what we have discussed.
We have been left as Ambassadors of Christ and our mission is to communicate the message of reconciliation to the lost. God has placed His children into a [...]
This is long but worth it
The church of Jesus Christ in the US has a credibility gap. This gap is between the message the church proclaims and the way its members live. Not every believer in the church falls into this category, but I believe that most of us do. In order for the church [...]
The mechanisms by which we process thoughts are not a mystery. God designed the human brain and soul to process thoughts using visual images and verbal words/phrases. When we think, we form a mental image and talk to ourselves about the issue at hand. Let’s look closer at both of these.
God designed the heart (kardia) [...]
This post is the 9th in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“.
All of us are born into this life with a great need and longing for love, protection and the compulsion to totally trust someone else. Total trust and dependence on another is the same thing as worship. Go designed us to be born with [...]
Continue reading about BONDING – TRUST & ATTACHMENT – THE WORSHIP INSTINCT
This post is the eighth in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“.
The third section of the Transformation Workbook expands and clarifies the way God made us to process His word and build our own views about life. These views control every aspect of our human experience. We use our volition to process the events of our [...]
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This post is the seventh in a series titled “Transformation Workbook“.
I am told that good writers summarize what they have written and what they are about to write before they move on. The old adage says: Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them and then tell them what you told them. [...]
