Ignoring Warning Lights In Your Car

Ignoring Warning Lights In Your Car – “Have you grown so comfortable living in a fallen world that you are driving with the warning lights on without any sense of concern?”

 

What Is Prudence?

What Is Prudence? – “As a protective Father, God calls us to prudence, to think before we act. This may sound simple, but even prudence has its imposters. We may think we are being prudent while we are still playing the fool. How so?”

 

How to Detect Deception

How to Detect Deception – Whether dealing with ancient texts or contemporary speech, when it comes to detecting lies, “the devil is in the details.”

Are You Relying on the Spirit or a Hunch?

Are You Relying on the Spirit or a Hunch? – “Intuition is like a book of matches. We can use the tool to warm a house up or burn it down.”

The Chosen and The Word

The Chosen and The Word – “Has watching the show helped you reflect deeply on the meaning of the Gospel accounts? Have you been able to maintain enough emotional distance from the show?”

How to Guard Against Over-Reliant Discernment

How to Guard Against Over-Reliant Discernment – “In all discernment, we must always seek to be guided and driven by the truth of God’s word, not what our favorite teacher says, not what a discernment blogger decides.”

Three Biblical Questions For Fans Of The Chosen

Three Biblical Questions For Fans Of The Chosen – It’s always worthwhile to ask good questions and be discerning.

We Need to Be More Sparing About When We Shout ‘Fire’

We Need to Be More Sparing About When We Shout ‘Fire’ – “We need to be careful that we aren’t always insisting that such and such is ‘an attack on Christian values’ or is necessarily government overreach that will impact believers when it isn’t always so.”

Embodied Discernment: Learning to Discern with Our Minds, Hearts, and Actions

Embodied Discernment: Learning to Discern with Our Minds, Hearts, and Actions – “Let’s go forward with embodied discernment, that is gospel-assured, as we read and listen to the content we face each day.”

The Forgotten Virtue You Can’t Do Without

The Forgotten Virtue You Can’t Do Without – “Prudence is to doing justice what insight and steady hands are to doing surgery.”

Being Discerning and Being Critical Are Not the Same Thing

Being Discerning and Being Critical Are Not the Same Thing – “The discerning person will also discern what is good, right and true because that is their primary concern. The discerning person will have both good words and critical words to say.”

4 Questions to Consider When Making Godly Decisions

4 Questions to Consider When Making Godly Decisions – “Here are four questions to consider when helping people make godly decisions.”

Be a Truth-Lover

Be a Truth-Lover – We must be a discerning people as Christ-followers. “However angry or scared you are right now, your love for truth must be greater than your party, your political pre-commitments, and your agenda. You have an ethical responsibility to be a truth-lover.”

Discernment Danger

Discernment Danger – We live in a world of “counterfeiters”. Christians must be discerning of the information they embrace.

Judge People! (Like Jesus Did)

Judge People! (Like Jesus Did) – “Open your eyes to see and your heart to love, Jesus is saying, long before you open your mouth. Make sure things are in proper focus first, lest you realize on the Last Day that you were looking at image-bearers of God through the wrong end of the microscope.”

The Bereans Had No Bibles

The Bereans Had No Bibles – “There are three fundamental truths that I think can helps us form a more accurate conception of what it means to be a Berean and which can give us some insight into how theology was taught in the early church.”

2020 Proves We Don’t Need More Information. (We Need Something Else.)

2020 Proves We Don’t Need More Information. (We Need Something Else.) – “The irony of the information age is that the more access we have to an unfathomable amount of information and accumulated knowledge, the less wise we seem to become.”

Discernment Without and Within

Discernment Without and Within – “With the potential for the entire world to stream into our minds and hearts by means of the internet, it is safe to conclude that there has never been a time when Christians needed discernment so much as at present.”

Discernment Isn’t Optional for Christians

Discernment Isn’t Optional for Christians – “Discernment seems to be a constant theme directed toward the people of God.”

Losing Discernment

Losing Discernment – “Babies are cute, but they don’t make good decisions. Where we see immaturity in the church, we will see a lack of discernment. Discernment is needed as God’s people navigate life in a cursed world, make disciples, choose leaders, and speak into difficult issues.”