Welcome to the Faith Pulse for today, Thursday, June 23, 2022.
Wishing you peace and favor for your day..
Let’s dive into these faith gems.
Why ‘You do You’ Doesn’t Work—We Need to Look Up
Oh how I agree with Akos Balogh here that this western culture of self-help, self-made and all this self, self, self talk is destructive.
“Religion is dying out because (Western) society is becoming less religious. Science, reason, and rationality can take care of all our needs. And when it comes to our identities, all we need do is look within ourselves—‘you do you’—to find out who we are.”
Don’t Drink Sand: Trading Self-Help for Living Water
Amy Tyson shares her review of the book A Better Encouragement and the lessons she has taken away from it.
“I used to feel capable. Then my husband’s Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis four years ago peeled back the veneer of capability, revealing weakness. I felt hopeful and confident in the Lord’s good control until the future looked scary.”
A Heart of Worship
If you’ve ever found yourself contemplating what exactly it means to have a heart of worship, this article will help.
“The song ‘Heart of worship’ by Matt Redman paints a helpful picture of what worship in a Church set-up should be like. He says: “When the music fades, and all is stripped away, will I be able to come to God for nothing else but God?” The chorus says, “I am coming back to the heart of worship, where it’s all about you; I am sorry Lord for the things I have made it; it is all about you, Jesus.” “
How to Be a Refreshing River of Life to Others
“Spiritual death is a pandemic much more prevalent and devastating than COVID-19. Our world is in desperate need of God’s life-giving water. If you want to keep growing into your full, God-given potential in Christ, you’ll let the refreshing water of God’s Spirit flow from you to others in a way that enables them to experience life!”
30 Important Exhortations in the Bible We Must Remember
I love these types of posts because they add practical value. It means someone else has done the work for us, making it easy to reference scripture on certain topics.
[See 30 Biblical Affirmations To Help Build Our Faith ]
“The Bible features many statements of exhortation. We can learn valuable spiritual lessons from all of those exhortations, if we take action to apply them to our lives. Here’s a look at 30 important exhortations in the Bible that we must remember to keep growing in our relationships with God – and how to learn from them.”
God’s Word Never Changes, but the Way We Read It Does.
Abby Perry writes:
“In a crumbling economy, with rising inflation and interest rates, countless industries are flailing–but not Bible publishers.”
I think it can only be a good thing that the Word is now more accessible than ever before. There are so many more points of contact for us to carry out The Great Commission.
Faith Pulse in Music
Talkin Bout (Love)
Kirk Franklin is at it again.
This time he has teamed up with Chandler Moore and Lizzie Morgan to release
this masterpiece.
This Is The Kingdom (Song Session)
I will never forget how tis touched me when Elevation Worship first premiered it some months ago.
Perhaps it is because so much of it is straight out of scripture.
We Make Space – UPPERROOM
Upperroom never misses with raw, uplifting worship sessions.
This will super charge your spiritual atmosphere.
Take it in.
Chris Howland & Drew Ava – Joyful Melody
Oooh this is aptly titled.
Sweetness as soon as the first beat drops.