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SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY
Article by Tom Gilbert — © April, 2009
We all know times are tough right now.
You can’t escape the news. We are in a recession. It is
perhaps the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Some are even labeling our crisis the Great Recession.
With all the media attention on our troubled time it is easy
to get caught up in the gloom and doom. Focusing on negativity
will not make things better, however, so I try to take a different
tact. I believe that when you stop living in the problem and
start living in the solution the problem goes away. Or at least
you find a way to face the problem.
The big problem I see today is not so much that unemployment
is on the rise and banks are foreclosing on homes (but please
don’t think I’m minimizing the plight of anyone
dealing with those challenges). The problem I perceive is that
too many people are going bankrupt spiritually. A very large
part of the population seems lost in a culture that emphasizes
materialism, consumerism and egoism. These things never satisfy.
Not ultimately.
The good news that sometimes comes out of the bad news of a
great recession is that more of us get a wakeup call to what
life is really all about.
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SEVEN GIFTS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Article by Tom Gilbert —
© June, 2009
Everyone is looking for ways to
change their life for the better. Motivational speakers
and self-help gurus promote their latest systems with
action steps to a new you. We’ve all heard, maybe
even tried, to follow some of these good orderly directions.
And there is nothing wrong with many of them.
A Key Point
Except for one essential and key point that any system
or set of principles designed to change you for the better
must be grounded in spiritual power to have any real and
lasting effect.
For Christians that power is God. And it is expressed
in, and through us, by the Holy Spirit. The Feast of
Pentecost is the celebration of the Holy Spirit descending
upon the apostles in a mighty way as described in Acts
2.
The Counselor Comes
Jesus spoke of this special Helper, the Counselor, the
Spirit of truth, in the Gospel of John 16:13 - But when
he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into
all truth.
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