Knowing is Half the Battle
This Sunday we will begin a new series based on the recently released book by John Mark Comer, Live no Lies. The book is focused on the three enemies of the soul, the world, the flesh, and the devil. I have included a section of the prelude to the opening of the book to give you some insight on what we will be discussing this Sunday, also, take some time and read John 8.
Excerpt from Live no Lies:
“Okay, hold up. After a lead-in rife with military metaphors, you’re expecting an angry tirade about the decline of Western civilization and the looming secular apocalypse, an us-versus-them call to arms, my foray into the culture wars…
Take a deep breath.
This isn’t that.
Our nation is more divided than it’s been since the Civil War, and the last thing we need is more gas on the fire. All I want to do is name the felt experience of following Jesus in our cultural moment, and I just can’t find a better metaphor: it feels like a war for the soul.
We feel this constant conflict not just “out there” in culture or in our digital newsfeeds but inside the fabric of our own minds and bodies. A kind of inner tug-of-war that is emotionally exhausting and spiritually depleting, a tearing at the fabric of our souls’ peace.”
Peace,
Nathan Bentley