The more we focus on God, the more we understand and appreciate how worthy He is. As we understand and appreciate this, we can’t help but respond to Him. Just as an incredible sunset or a breath-taking mountaintop vista evokes a spontaneous response, so we cannot encounter the worthiness of God without the response of worship.
– Donald Whitney in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
– Donald Whitney
Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.
– Donald Whitney
in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
5 Great Reasons To Memorize Scripture Today – Tim Challies (from Donald Whitney)
There are few areas of the Christian life where there is a wider gap between what Christians want to do and what Christians actually do than in this area: memorizing Scripture.
A Simple Method To Organize Your Prayers – Tim Challies
Christians have created many patterns and systems to help them as they pray. One of my favorites is John Piper’s model of praying…
Spiritual Disciplines, Legalism, and Laziness – Trevin Wax (with Donald Whitney)
When I consider my own spiritual life, I can’t help but think about certain practices and disciplines that the Lord has used to shaped me over the years.
A Gospeled Church – Jared Wilson
You cannot grow in holiness and holier-than-thou-ness at the same time. So a church that makes its main thing the gospel, and when faced with sin in its ranks doesn’t simply crack the whip of the law but says “remember the gospel,” should gradually be seeing grace coming to bear.
You see above two posts interacting with Donald Whitney whose revised version of Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life just came out. Highly recommended!
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!
Donald Whitney has 31 helpful questions for us to ask as we look at the coming year. Below are the first ten. You can follow the link to read the rest.
1. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?
2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?
3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?
4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?
5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?
6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?
For more helpful questions and articles by Donald Whitney, see here.
In addition to the ten questions I suggested in my last post, I would encourage you to check out Donald Whitney’s questions to ask for the New Year. Whitney asks some great questions to help you evaluate your life and ponder the coming year. The first ten in particular are really helpful. I have used these questions for the last few years, and also print them out as a bulletin insert for our church each year.
As I mentioned in the last post, I take time at the new year to evaluate where I am and where I would like to go in the coming year. In examining my life, and considering how I need to grow, it is helpful to have some good questions to ponder. Donald Whitney has given us 31 great questions to consider at the beginning of a new year. A sampling includes:
For all 31 questions, visit his site here.
Brian J. Mikul 