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.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Soak In the Wisdom and Joy of C.S. Lewis This Weekend

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I hope the last few posts have persuaded you that you need to read The Weight of Glory . The full insights of Lewis's sermon can't b...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Ultimate Fulfillment Is Greater Than We've Ever Dreamed

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C.S. Lewis perceived that our  inconsolable longing  in this life will only be completely fulfilled when we are united to God in the next. ...

We All Have an Inconsolable Longing - For Now

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In the last post, I said that C.S. Lewis spent a great deal of time thinking about our universal human longing for happiness. One of the gr...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Happiness Is Limited in This Life So You'll Enjoy It Forever

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I want to make sure that I am clear in what I mean when I say God wants us to be happy. I do not at all mean that God promises we will be ha...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

Why Does God Delay Giving Us Joy?

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I firmly believe God does want us to be happy. The way Jesus prays for His people in John 17 , especially John 17:13, is a powerful example ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Don't Let Being Unhappy Make You Feel Guilty

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I am very conscious that what I said in the last post about the importance of seeking happiness can easily come across as making it sound l...

Wanting to Be Happy Is a Virtue - and a Necessity

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This perspective by C.S. Lewis has really ministered to me through a painful summer. Walter Hooper describes the virtue of Lewis's posi...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

This Is What the Government Wants from Christians in the U.S.

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Pastor Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion conferences, was invited to pray at the Inauguration of President Obama because of his sincere ...
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...
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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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