tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post7899244322458889884..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: How Your Life Matters (Weekend Extra)Phil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-64354024334254976552013-06-18T06:54:20.603-07:002013-06-18T06:54:20.603-07:00I don't know how I passed over this jewel! Th...I don't know how I passed over this jewel! Thank you so much Frank. This year has been a hard one for my wife and I, and like Daniel, this post is timely. I'll be sharing it abroad. Thank you for stirring me up toward good works.Webster Hunt (Parts Man)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04631846083790242392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-44830919645701011652013-06-18T06:38:24.827-07:002013-06-18T06:38:24.827-07:00Thanks, Frank. This is very comforting and encour...Thanks, Frank. This is very comforting and encouraging. Put alongside with your link to "What God Ordains is Always Good", from a few weeks ago, it really warms my heart. That song really comforts my soul, as does this post.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987985549747283669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-25362114945358064302013-06-17T09:13:44.268-07:002013-06-17T09:13:44.268-07:00Daniel,
I agree. I think the reason the message is...Daniel,<br />I agree. I think the reason the message is less than comforting is that you usually hear messages of how we are supposed to be doing something like missions or using the gifts that God gave us to glorify him. Those are good messages. However, when you fail and you express frustration in the course of trying to find out how to do better, you are told that you just need to do whatever it is that you do at work or in your family in order to glorify God.<br /><br />Now, we should desire to do all to the glory of God. However, we see the behavior that is honored among Christians as that which produces glory for God and we fail in trying to emulate it as an example of how we are supposed to glorify God. When we fail, we are told in essence that the best thing we can do to glorify God is to sit down, shut up, and be content when that behavior is never displayed as honoring especially when we were told to get up and do something to begin with. It's all perfectly frustrating in light of the fact that we are being told this conflicting message by the people who are most apparently successful at glorifying God.<br /><br />At this point, it's very easy to become jaded. However, Frank is on the money in referencing Hebrews 12, particularly verse 15. It's a struggle that successful Christians aren't typically very good at helping unsuccessful Christians with. But we must continue to trust that God has some plan in not fully equipping us for successfully living the Christian life. His grace is sufficient.Depressed Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06267206014508487548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-67161076071921495102013-06-17T06:46:46.127-07:002013-06-17T06:46:46.127-07:00Encouraging and challenging.
And needed for me.
...Encouraging and challenging. <br /><br />And needed for me.<br /><br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-64144053605063433482013-06-16T09:27:45.282-07:002013-06-16T09:27:45.282-07:00This is tremendously encouraging. I've spent ...This is tremendously encouraging. I've spent a lot of time lately thinking about some of Paul's references to living a quiet and godly life...make it your ambition, he said. Quite different from what our culture, both inside and outside the church, tells us about ambition and goal-setting.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16066715085302965768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-82260212515150913152013-06-15T16:33:00.824-07:002013-06-15T16:33:00.824-07:00Amen, and thanks again, Frank. My mother is often...Amen, and thanks again, Frank. My mother is often discouraged by her poor health, and I'm discouraged by my Barney Fife-level ineptitude at being a witness, so it's too easy to forget that, deep down, such "woe is me, I'm not doing enough" thoughts are just whiny, selfish navel-gazing. Everything collapses in the face of Jesus Christ, God Almighty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-19104377274790786122013-06-15T05:36:48.299-07:002013-06-15T05:36:48.299-07:00As a young man who is unmarried and failing to fin...As a young man who is unmarried and failing to find a job, struggling with feeling worthless or pointless is common. The blog posts and sermons from others typically make me feel even worse and sometimes tempt me to walk away from the church. Thanks for this post it was timely.Daniel Stephenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12843159894789020276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-49647424332960309902013-06-15T03:39:52.587-07:002013-06-15T03:39:52.587-07:00No comments from me on this post, but two from my ...No comments from me on this post, but two from my friend Jim Bublitz (Jim from "Old Truth") shortly before his death:<br /><br />"I just want to glorify God. This is a pretty tough way to do it, but I only want to glorify Him to the end."<br /><br />""I just want to live out whatever time I have left as a testimony to God's ability to work His own plan."Tom Chantryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02485908616177111150noreply@blogger.com