Rick Thomas | Your Daily Drive

The time it takes you to ask for forgiveness and feeling forgiven while enjoying the freedom of that forgiveness reveals your practical understanding and application of the gospel. For some folks, when they sin, they go through a “worry period” because they have not come to the place of enjoying the gospel thoroughly or practically. Mable was like this.

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Biblical discernment is a huge issue for anyone who wants to care for another person. Anytime you’re discipling someone, you have to make judgment calls about the person you’re helping. There is no way around this truth. All good disciple-makers have to be comfortable with discerning people. Do you know how to biblically assess those who receive your care?

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Everyone has asked God for things. And nobody has gotten all that they asked the Lord to provide. For the unbeliever, the denial of the request will generate disappointment, cynicism, and even anger. For the child of God, temporal disappointment or frustration may come, but the believer quickly recalibrates his heart because Christians know that no matter the response, God is good, and He’s working good for us.

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Marriage is a marathon, and if you want to do it well, it’s vital that you understand and implement these seven practical keys. If not, it’s likely that hostility will come and harmony will be a lost dream. There is transformative hope in God’s Word. Follow along with this case study and assess your marriage to see how it needs to change, and then make your plan.

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Fundamentalism is one slice of Christian evangelicalism. Christians are like good wood: we split easily. Fundamentalists typically hold to strict sub-biblical, ascetic practices. Though they love Jesus and are passionate about following Him, many of them embrace legalistic preferences. The negative effect of this kind of teaching is immediate and generational.

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Our Mastermind course is an all-online training curriculum that teaches Christians how to grow in their discipleship, biblical counseling practices. We had a seasoned educator, who is also a student in our program to provide her assessment and personal experience of our training course.

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Every day you have to make many decisions, big and small. Some of them are life-changing events, while others aren’t as consequential. Having a good grasp of biblical decision-making is vital. I have for you a decision-making case study, and then a few practical guidelines that will serve you in all of the decisions that you have to make.

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One of the most counterintuitive messages for anyone to accept is their inherent badness. If you are feeling bad about yourself, the key to overcoming this struggle is to accept that you’re not a good person. The culture says you are somebody. The Bible says you’re not, other than made in God’s image. I’m not addressing self-worth that is found in image-bearing, but our futile pursuit to feel good about ourselves outside of Christ’s alien righteousness.

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No doubt, being a good husband is a good goal. And you can throw in being a good wife too. You could say the same thing for being a good dad, mother, child, employer, employee, or a good friend. All of these roles are important, but did you know there is a difference between “good and best?” When you think about your life, there is a “best goal” that transcends all of the single-dimensioned ones that I’ve listed.

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Depression is a complicated problem that is the center of much debate. And though those arguments will always continue, there are a few things that you can do when depressed. These practical suggestions will give you hope even when in despair. What you will have to determine if you want to be faith-centered or feeling-centered, both real and competing worldviews.

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