TPC Ladies' Book and Scripture Study will be held each 2nd Tuesday evening at Cindy Douglas' house at 7 PM. Come on out and enjoy the fellowship, discussion and food. We'll be reading and discussing Respectable Sins, Confronting the Sins we Tolerate, by Jerry Bridges. Jerry Bridges asks, "Have Christians become so preoccupied with "major" sins that we have lost sight of our need to deal with more subtle sins? Navigator author Jerry Bridges addresses the “acceptable” sins that we tend to tolerate in ourselves...." Here is a partial list of the subtle sins we'll be discussing: ungodliness, anxiety, frustration, discontentment, unthankfulness, pride, moral self-righteousness, pride of correct doctrine, pride of achievement, an independent spirit, selfishness, lack of self-control, impatience, irritability, anger, resentment, bitterness, enmity and hostility, grudges, judgmentalism, envy, jealousy, sins of the tongue and worldliness. ugggh, this may hurt!!!! I'll try to remember Psalm 141:5!
Food for thought...Mark Horne says here's a sentence the Apostle John never wrote...do we evangelicals see it this way? For this is the love of God, that we find forgiveness in the Gospel for breaking his commandments. And his commandments are burdensome, but we have grace to help us.
1 John 5: 1-3 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the chidren of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
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