Transformed: Week 7, Vocational Health.
Sermons on 1 Samuel
David was a remarkable man, join us in this seventh talk in our David series.
David was a remarkable man, join us in this sixth talk in our David series.
David was a remarkable man, join us in this fifth talk in our David series – what advice would you give to yourself?
David was a remarkable man, find out more in this fourth talk in our David series.
David was a remarkable man, find out more in this third talk in our David series.
David was a remarkable man, but what was most remarkable was not his accomplishments, but his heart. How do we build a bold heart?
David was a remarkable man, but what was most remarkable was not his accomplishments, but his heart.
The goal of the Christian life is to love well. Jesus was aware that true spirituality included not only loving God, but also the skill of loving others maturely. Growing into an emotionally mature Christian person includes experiencing each individual, ourselves included, as sacred, or as Martin Buper (a twentieth century philosopher & religious thinker) put it, as a “Thou” rather than as an “It”.
Self awareness is intricately related to our relationship with God. In fact, the challenge of Scripture to shed our ‘false’ self in order to live authentically in our new ‘true’ self strikes at the very core of true spirituality. In AD500, Augustine wrote in ‘Confessions,’ “How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self?” He prayed: “Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.” In 1530, John Calvin wrote in his opening of the ‘Institutes of the Christian Religion:’ “Our wisdom…. consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.’
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