Manata writes, "you have to distinguish between making a choice and having choices where the latter implies that each is a live option. We certainly make choices. The pheonomenology is the same for both of us. We have a pile in front of us, and we pick up one thing over another. Therefore, inability to choose the other doesn't mean that I didn't choose the one. I did." Hays comments on the idea of 'divine trickery' in 'illusory choices', pointing out that it is common experience to choose things that collectively turn out to not be live options (e.g. setting goals that are too lofty early in life). "To put the same point more simply, do people who overestimate their abilities still make real choices?" Useful illusions
Phillips quotes a fantastic Spurgeon statement to the effect that achieving purity isn't collapsing into self-absorption. All our motives are impure. Even our motives to attain purity are impure. So instead, look to Christ, who is everything good and godly and holy that we are not. Two unrelateds- a sarkicophobia afterthought; and a TIWIARN
Interesting title on a post to the effect that real godly men must first be a wife - that is, in the church of Christ, which is the Bride of Christ. A Real Man Must be a Wife First
Ray Ortland provides some statistics on the catastrophic biblical illiteracy even among those who claim to revere it, and offers some good suggestions for how to centre and educate your congregation in the Scriptures. http://christisdeeperstill.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-our-watch.html
Patton posts the apostasy 'testimony' of a former Charismatic Pentacostal minister who poured his life into his ministry, denying his family, etc. while being exhorted to be 'on fire for God.' Married to the Ministry- Why Jim Left the Ministry and Faith
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