Results 1 - 4 of 4
|
|
|||||
Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
Results | Verse | Author | ID# | |||
1 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | justme | 201367 | ||
Steve: I just don't think you understand! I have looked at FOF. I just canot put this on for the Fourth time. Please I tried to be specfic...for a BOOK. Please read posts more carefully. | ||||||
2 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Wild Olive Shoot | 201372 | ||
Dear justme, You’re asking again and again for help from a source that may indeed help in some trivial manner, but nonetheless can offer only a personal experience that may or may not relate to the situation your friends are in. The fact of the matter is, the repetitious reference to scripture is the soundest advice you can offer, they being in he ministry should understand that. Who but Christ can effectually calm their worries and comfort them when they need it most. Personally, in times of suffering, we should dwell more heavily in the Word of God for therein lies the answers and the promises of comforting and strengthening when we need it most. A good point is that in our suffering, we can find Christ and pull closer, and it starts with the Word. But so many today feel there is a more viable solution outside of scripture and rather than looking to Christ, we look for other, fallible advice, in which to find comfort. There is something fundamentally wrong with that, don’t you think? The only one, who can heal us in every way, is pushed by the wayside in lieu of something else more appealing at the time, and sometimes, maybe inadvertently, keeps us from pulling closer to our Comforter. “Even in the secular spheres, contemporary Americans are mad after the theology of glory, expecting success on the job, perfect families, and either self-help remedies or government action to solve all our problems. But Americans today cannot handle suffering. We would rather die than suffer. We would rather be killed than suffer. Send for Dr. Kevorkian! But the truth of Christianity is evident in that everyone does, in fact, have problems, struggles, and sufferings. And this can be their point of contact for Christ, who on the cross not only “was wounded for our transgressions” but also “has borne our griefs” and “carried our sorrows” (Isa. 53:4–5).” - Dr. Gene Edward Veith http://www.ligonier.org/tabletalk/2008/3/1048_Glory_Versus_the_Cross For what it is worth, it is apparent how persistent you are in your search to find something to help this couple, and I truly see how desperately you would like to help and I hope you do in a way pleasing to God. But while searching, reflect on how difficult the search has been and wonder if just maybe, the search is in vain, for the answer has been presented and placed in front of you all along. And maybe, just maybe, that is the reason your search has been so difficult. Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. “That hope which hath eternal life for its object is here proposed as the end of scripture-learning. The scripture was written that we might know what to hope for from God, and upon what grounds, and in what way. This should recommend the scripture to us that it is a special friend to Christian hope. Now the way of attaining this hope is through patience and comfort of the scripture. Patience and comfort suppose trouble and sorrow; such is the lot of the saints in this world; and, were it not so, we should have no occasion for patience and comfort. But both these befriend that hope which is the life of our souls. Patience works experience, and experience hope, which maketh not ashamed, Rom_5:3-5. The more patience we exercise under troubles the more hopefully we may look through our troubles; nothing more destructive to hope than impatience. And the comfort of the scriptures, that comfort which springs from the word of God (that is the surest and sweetest comfort) is likewise a great stay to hope, as it is an earnest in hand of the good hoped for. The Spirit, as a comforter, is the earnest of our inheritance.” - Matthew Henry Just some thoughts. Stand in His Grace, WOS |
||||||
3 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | Hank | 201379 | ||
A resounding amen to your post, WOS! The Bible, the living word of the living God, is the only truly seminal source of truth, the only sure counsel for the problems that beset mankind, the only abiding and eternal lamp to his feet and light to his path (cf. Psalm 119:105). ...... I grew up in a time when in American publishing history there was a genuine plethora of so-called how-to publications, also known as self-help books. You could buy books that would tell you "how to" do virtually anything. How to win friends, get a job, become a millionaire, lose weight, become a glamorous movie star, think positively, understand Einstein's theory of relativity -- the list was practically endless. Yet those books that were on everybody's best-seller lists in the middle of last century largely have faded into oblivion. Most of them are out of print and few among the younger generation have ever heard of them, much less read them. So if we should hasten to recommend a current book that claims to reveal an easy way to solve tough human problems, such as delicate human relationships, we should be especially careful, being mindful that that book will more than likely turn out to be no easy fix at all. And it will just as likely prove to be as superficial and as ephemeral as the once highly acclaimed self-help books of yesteryear. ...... Somewhere on this thread a user was somewhat critical of other users who had unequivocally cited the Bible above all other books as the supreme source book to study in an effort to find the answer -- God's answer -- to the question that generated the thread. But, seeing no fault in citing God's word as being all-sufficient, I can't in any manner or on any point agree with that critic. We either believe in and accept in toto Hebrews 4:12, or else we reject it. There is no middle ground, no room for bargaining. ...... Sir Walter Scott, the great Scottish novelist, on his deathbed asked his son-in-law, John Lockhart, to read to him. Looking over the long shelf of books that Sir Walter had written, Lockhart asked, "What book shall I read?" The dying novelist replied, "Why do you ask that question? There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ..... When we need counsel, when we need answers to our most pressing questions, when we need nourishment for our souls and strength to carry on, we should not need to seek in vain to find solace in some book that frail man has written. We should seek solace where it can be found, in God's word. ...... "There is but one book, the Bible. Bring me the Bible. Read to me from that book." ....... "All Scripture is breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:16,17, ESV) --Hank | ||||||
4 | Help, parents need encouragement! | 2 Tim 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 201385 | ||
Dear Hank, Well said, sir. As always. Nevertheless, for those who eschew the wisdom of old-dead-guys for an imagined doctrinal superiority of not-yet-dead-guys, may I offer the following. This is Article 1 from the confession published May 8, 2006 by the National Conference for Uniting Church and Family. (Note that that was a couple of years ago, and I cannot vouch for everyone still being alive of those who penned the document. I guess I can only get just so current after all.) "We affirm that our all-wise God has revealed Himself and His will in a completed revelation -- the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments -- which is fully adequate in both content and clarity for 'everything pertaining to life (salvation) and godliness (sanctification)' including the ordering of the church and the family (2 Peter 1:3-4; 1 Timothy 3:15). "We deny that God’s people should treat His Word as inadequate for church and family life by supplementing His completed revelation with humanistic psychology, corporate business models, and modern marketing techniques." I am deeply and genuinely concerned that self-avowed believers would participate in a Study Bible Forum while continuing to hold to a uniquely anti-biblical Scripture-Plus philosophy. We pray that they honor our Lord by embracing the truth, which thing we must regularly reiterate, as you have done. (For those interested, see posts #155648, #195841, #195911, and #197446.) In Him, Doc |
||||||