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Making the Holidays Holy Days #3, Part 1

December 24, 2019

Trying to gain holiness by following a set of rules just brings legalism and guilt. True holiness comes from the pushing in of the truth of the gospel ever deeper into your soul. This only happens when we receive the Spirit of God and set our minds and hearts on things above.

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If we're going to be holy, then we need to face up to who God is. He is a God of love but He's also a God of wrath and He is opposed to evil and injustice, and that is good news. We need to take God seriously at Christmas so that this good news is more than just a sentimental feel-good moment.
December 23, 2019
When we hear the word sinner, we tend to compare ourselves to others and think we're not so bad. But Paul shows that none of us is righteous.
December 22, 2019
The only way to have our holidays be holy days, to become more spiritually mature and to deal with sin in our lives is by a process Pastor Josh calls "spiritual violence." We've got to rip out sin out by the root.
December 20, 2019
You can say that you understand how to become a real Christian, then seek Him as an act of will, and then set your mind to what pleases Jesus. But what if you still don't feel very motivated? Why should you be holy?
December 19, 2019
The most important way to become holy and please Jesus is to set your mind on things above and not on earthly things. It is a battle of the mind. During the holidays, let's figure out what they were all meant to be about and who Christ really is, and let's commit to Him and make our holidays holy days.
December 18, 2019
Society seems to be growing out of the idea of life after death. But can we really attend a funeral and not give a thought to whether this is all life is about? When you're around death, you're close to eternity, and the veil parts a little bit and life seems very translucent.
December 17, 2019
There is a high motivation for us to deny ourselves for Jesus, because when we choose what Jesus says in His Word, we bear the fruit of a true Christian. While denying ourselves does not come naturally, we need to lean into this counterintuitive and paradoxical way to find real life.
December 16, 2019
People today tend to think of God's righteousness as being strange or unfamiliar, or they just think of it in terms of trying to be good enough to please God. In Romans we find a different definition of righteousness.
December 15, 2019
What do you really want? We could offer to help you construct a dream around your desires. But that's a cruel thing to do, because as we elevate the cross, that's the real way to find fulfillment. You must lose your life to save it.
December 13, 2019
Stress contributes to health, relationship, and spiritual problems. This passage tells us how to find rest for our souls. Jesus talks about the burden of our sin and alienation from God. He takes that burden so that we can live as free people.
December 12, 2019
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About Josh Moody

Josh Moody (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is the senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, IL., president and founder of God Centered Life Ministries, and author of several books including How the Bible Can Change Your Life. He was an associate fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University (2007-2011), and his Cambridge University doctorate in Theology was published in 2005. Pastor Josh grew up south of London, became a follower of Jesus in the Church of England, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University where he was president of the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. He is married to Rochelle, and they have four children.

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