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I dance through my gray hair and you see me. A women with a soft smile and gentle hands. The right slow song can teach a body to sway, and I move like reeds in an evening breeze. The moon knows how to make a cameo with a warm glow, and for a moment, you wear me at your throat. You bend it into a corsage of evening stars and bundled nerves, then slip your hello on my wrist.

Psalm 37:4 tells us to Delight yourself in the Lord and he will grant you the desires of your heart”. Such positive encouragement should caution us to a wholely negative view of desire as automatically and only sin.   We can have good desires.   We may also think of those things as affections, the people, things, priorities we give our affection to, that we love.  The Law says that we are to…

One day a religious teacher asked Jesus a very important question: “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered with stunning clarity: “Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself. No…

Colossesi 3:1-2 1 Se dunque voi siete stati risuscitati con Cristo, cercate le cose di sopra dove Cristo è seduto alla destra di Dio. 2 Abbiate l’animo alle cose di sopra, non a quelle che son sulla terra;

1 If therefore you were raised together with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things which are above, not on the things which are on the earth. — Colossians 3:1-2 | Italian: Riveduta Bible 1927 (IRB) and Recovery Version (REC) The Italian Riveduta Bible 1927 is by the Società Biblica di Gineva (Geneva Biblical Society) and is a revised version of the Bibbia Riverduta (Revised Bible) and Recovery Version of the Holy Bible © 2009 Living Stream Ministry. All rights reserved. Cross References: Matthew 6:19-21; John 14:2-3; John 17:24; Acts 1:9-11; Romans 6:4-5; Romans 8:5-6; Romans 8:34; Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 15:20-22; 2 Corinthians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:16-17; Ephesians 1:20-21; Ephesians 2:6; Ephesians 4:22-24; Philippians 3:19-21; Philippians 4:8; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 1:3-4; 1 John 2:15-17; 1 John 3:2

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Nota: Colossesi 3:1-2 sottolinea la trasformazione spirituale del credente dopo essere risuscitato con Cristo, esortandolo a cercare e concentrarsi sulle cose celesti piuttosto che su quelle terrene. Questo significa dare priorità ai valori di Dio e ricercare le realtà eterne anziché i desideri e le preoccupazioni temporali.

In a recent “Walk and talk” video, I started to wonder if some of the recent controversies within Reformed thinking relate to  something called the Doctrine of Divine Impassibility.  Impassibility is to do with passions, in fact it means to be “without passions.”  Impassibility is an implicit doctrine, in other words, rather than being something that Scripture explicitly says, we imply it from…