#Mythoughts gods free

Chapter 1 recounts the exiled Bayle's conflict with the Walloon Consistory in Rotterdam and his enmity with the theologian Pierre Jurieu.

In particular he resisted the limits placed on the forms of thought permitted within his religious community while continuing to claim allegiance to that community. I draw upon the work Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, to show how Bayle employed a set of 'strategies of resistance' to the power of the church of his day. Bayle's understanding of power, knowledge and God and his spirituality developed in response to the constraints placed upon his thought not only by Catholic persecutors, but by Calvinist opponents as well. What helps you get into God’s Word? What stops you? I’ve learned every morning is a new chance for me to take a few minutes to meet with God.The Huguenot skeptic Pierre Bayle, as an early modern road-not-taken for Reformed theology, can inform a deconstructive postmodern theology. I’m forever grateful for God’s Word forever grateful that I can daily exchange my brokenness for His fullness If you’re like me and you check your phone before your feet hit the floor in the morning (confession), the First5 app is a great way to start your day.

#Mythoughts gods free

Thank you smart phones for making it even easier to get our daily dose of God’s Word! Proverbs 31 ministries has a new free app that will send a devotional to you every morning. I’m giving away one of my favorites – Streams in the Desert - and I’d love for you to enter to win a copy here.Ĥ. A daily devotional is a great bridge to get into the Word. Look for a study that digs into scripture rather than one that discusses a book.ģ. There are online Bible studies, studies through local churches and community Bible studies such as Bible Study Fellowship. This is a great way to jump start a good rhythm of Bible study. Here are 3 different Bible reading plans.Ģ. It’s flat out amazing how God will personally speak to our circumstances and our need as we simply read chapter by chapter. No need to search randomly through the Bible to find something that will speak to us. Choose a book of the Bible and start reading a chapter a day. Nothing calms me, grounds me, restores my soul, lifts my head, fixes my perspective, renews my hope, confirms my purpose and woos my heart like a daily dose of God’s Word.Īnd there’s never been an easier time to get into God’s Word.

Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. What God gave the Jewish people physically, He gives us spiritually. There was one exception: God preserved a double portion gathered on Friday so they could rest on the Sabbath. They couldn’t gather enough to last for the week. Every morning, He rained down manna - bread from heaven – and every morning each family had to go out and pick up enough for their family that day. This prescript for daily filling is pictured beautifully as God fed the Jewish people when they wandered for 40 years in the desert. A fresh filling of His promises, His character, His hope. I need a daily exchange of my thoughts for God’s thoughts. The day got ahead of me, I put off Bible study until I got some other important things done and before I knew it, my emotions had plummeted. I didn’t spend time in the Bible this morning. It’s when I have a particularly hard day, not just because of the day’s events but because I’m stressed and worried or super downhearted that I realize – oh yeah. I can’t get into the Word one day and have it carry me through the week. Hands down, it has been getting into the Word that has lifted my head day after day when I’ve been at my lowest.Įach morning I’ve come to my Bible time and exchanged my worry for God’s peace. We’ve been loved on by friends and family and I’ve read good books that spoke to grief.īut as helpful as all of that has been, none of it compares to the healing I’ve found in God’s Word. There have been sermons that seemed written just for me. I’ve had certain songs on repeat that helped me cry through some of the hard and ministered deeply. There have been several things hugely encouraging in this season of suffering. Every single day, as I went to God in pain and brokenness and opened the Bible to see what He had for me that day, He set my feet on the Rock and anchored my soul in hope. In the darkest hours, God’s Word has been not a balm but the balm for my soul. I feel as though this verse could be stapled across the last four years of my life. “Had your law not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.” Psalm 119:92