Author: Bogdan Kipko
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Six Sustaining Antidotes For Idolatry
The cause of idolatry is the insatiable lust or desire that pervades our person because our mind is not set on the things of God. The cause of idolatry is our obsession with trite and trivial things that occupy our mind and motivate our existence. It is a love that we have for the world…
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Four Reasons Why We Need To Guard Our Heart
Our heart is an idol factory. It is perpetually planting, producing and proposing idols within us until they start to materialize from us. If we are to be intentional about annihilating the idols in our life, we must guard our heart. Jesus commands us to love God with all of our heart (Mark 12:30). We…
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Twenty Ways To Tell What Your Idols Are
Before we can eliminate the idols in our life, we must first realize what (who) they are. We all have idols. We are all idolaters to one degree or another. We all are in need of repentance and restoration. We all are in desperate need to undergo serious spiritual alignment so that our passions are…
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Why Idolatry Is Infused With Irony
This week I want to discuss the irony of idolatry and why it inevitably fails to satisfy us. The most basic and succinct definition of idolatry is this: Idolatry is when we take a good thing and make it into an ultimate thing. In every single idolatrous case that we come across in our own…
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How To Be Gospel-Governed (Series Conclusion)
This post is part of a series on what it means to live a Gospel-Governed life. Read the previous posts here , here, here and here. _____________________________________________________________ If we are to live a life governed by the glorious gospel of Jesus the Christ, we need not seek behavior modification but rather a heart renovation. Here are three ways…
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Are You An Offense To Christ?
This post is part of a series on what it means to live a Gospel-Governed life. You can read the previous posts by clicking here, here and here. ______________________________________________________________ Being fully aware of his impending death, Jesus begins to boldly communicate to his disciples that soon, he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things…
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How To Have The Heart of Christ
This post is part of a series on what it means to live a Gospel-Governed life. Read the previous posts here and here. _____________________________________________________________ In this post, I want to talk about how to have the heart of Christ. The bible uses the words “heart,” “mind,” and “will” interchangeably depending on the context. Scripture clearly teaches us that the…
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Why We Need to Die and Deny Daily
This post is part of a series on what it means to live a gospel-governed life. Check out the first post here. ______________________________________________________________ Before we are able to live a gospel-governed life, we must first die to self. What I mean by dying is becoming holistically engaged in pursuing the will of God for our…