Fully Alive in Christ!

"The glory of God is man fully alive… ." wrote St. Irenaeus. Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is the Lord and the Savior of the world, and turns from sin to put faith in Christ to forgive sins and grant eternal life, will have the Spirit of God living inside of him or her. When this happens, we awaken from the gray world of disappointed dreams and taste what it really means to be alive. This blog is about the experience of being truly alive and how Christ satisfies our deepest longings.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Why Is God So Hard to Find? (Part 2)

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Continuing what I started in the last post , here are two more possible reasons God may seem distant or absent when He really is trying to h...

Why Is God So Hard to Find? (Part 1)

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In the last post I explained why we need to keep on seeking God and not give up, even when we feel we're coming up empty. This post an...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

If You're Dry, Don't Give Up Digging

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What do you do when your spiritual life is dry and parched? When you go to the Bible, or you go to prayer, and for some reason you're j...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

They Took Offense at Scripture

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As I pondered the title that came to me for the last post , I realized the passage of Scripture it comes from is a good illustration of peop...

Do You Take Offense At This?

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Can you feel it? The defensive attitude that creeps up in our hearts and minds as soon as the suggestion is raised that our understanding is...

We Must Think Like Children in Order to Learn from God

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How does receiving the kingdom of heaven like little children change our thinking? Instead of starting with the assumption that what we alre...

The Difference in Having a Christian Mind

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Here's an example of the difference in having a mind renewed by Christ. One of the major breakthroughs I've experienced in studying ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Why We Need to Think

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I've been working my way through messages from this year's Desiring God Conference, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God ...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

How to Confront and Avoid Anxiety

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As the last post explained, Battling Unbelief taught me to start focusing on God's promises and to put my trust in Him to keep them. ...
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Anxiety Is Dangerous - And Avoidable

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After somehow managing to successfully not post during the whole month of September, I want to jump back in by following up on the last post...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sunday Salt: Martin Luther Takes Aim at Anxiety

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Just about everyone knows something about Martin Luther, but there are so many common ideas about him that they sometimes distort or obscure...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sunday Salt: C.S. Lewis Exposes Our Legalistic Thinking

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After this week's discussion of legalism , this quote from C.S. Lewis seems appropriate. Lewis hardly needs an introduction to many, but...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Our Hope Is Not In Who We Are, But In Who God Is

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Here is the antidote to the problem of legalism I described in the last post : Our identity does not come from our being good people. It com...

This Message That I'm Not Good Is Discouraging

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I described in a recent post our desire to think of ourselves as good and our resistance to accepting that we really aren't good. I sum...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sunday Salt: Charles Simeon's Comfort in Suffering

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Charles Simeon was the pastor of Trinity Church in Cambridge, England for 54 years (from 1782 until his death in 1836). John Piper has a ve...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Sunday Salt: What John Wesley's Mother Taught Him

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Sin likes to hide. That's one reason I believe it is so important to examine ourselves in order to discover where sin is lurking in our ...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Why You Have to Fight Sin by Trusting in God

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I said here and here that in order to overcome sin and temptation, you have to let go of trusting in your own willpower and turn instead t...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sunday Salt: John Bunyan - When Sin Causes Us to Lose Heart

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John Bunyan began writing The Pilgrim's Progress while in prison in 1675. A lay preacher with only a basic lower-class education, Buny...

Openness and Sincerity About Suffering Encourages Others

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There are other reasons besides fear and insecurity that can lead us to conceal our struggles. Sometimes I am tempted to keep silent about m...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Don't Just Put on a Happy Face

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I said recently that your most painful or troubling times may be your best testimony to the power of the Gospel and the treasure of knowing...
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Anthony Bushnell
Minnesota, United States
Born alive at age 18. I had a childhood without church and didn't believe in God until He saved me seven weeks before my 19th birthday. Christ changed my life forever, but it was years before I really discovered the fullness of joy in God. I write to encourage others. I love teaching. I am grateful to be a husband and a father of three. I also practice law, volunteer with Christian Legal Society, and lead a small group at our church. And I really love to read.
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