Living on approval

Life

This article was adapted from a talk entitled ‘A Christian Man Gives Spiritual Leadership’, delivered at a Katoomba Men’s Convention.

Some men spend their lives waiting for the approval of their fathers, or trying to walk in their footsteps. But perhaps we need to learn the lesson that the Pharisees never learnt: to be satisfied with the approval of our Father in heaven.

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Return to Colossae

Thought

Why do so many Christians seem incapable of resisting the appeal of ‘the latest thing’? Is it that we are still waiting for that missing dimension which will finally restore the fortunes of our church? How strange it would be if the answer were right under our noses, waiting for us in the well-known words of Paul’s letter to the Colossians.

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