Haberdashery
GCD Weekly Newsletter, Wednesday 12th July 2023
A few days ago my wife and I visited our local haberdashery.
Both of us are creative and spend a lot of time working together on various projects and so this wasn’t an uncommon trip for us. For whatever reason the shop tends to get rearranged every few weeks or so, so where we found the wool one week isn’t where it is the next.
We were on the hunt for various items for our projects, but we couldn’t find the most important one.
Thread.
We’d searched up and down the shop, it wasn’t with the needles, or the wool. We could find it in the material aisle or even next to the sewing machines. This vital item that holds everything together was nowhere to be found. Just as we were about to ask someone, we looked at the entrance and lo and behold, the thread was there all along.
This week we have three articles for you, the second and third of which cover the subjects of Anger and how men and women are called to work together in the local church. These subjects can feel difficult at times and because of that you could be tempted to leave them be.
The thread, however, is found in the first article. Bob Allen helps us to focus on God, to not fixate on the world or the fleeting passions that come as a package deal with our culture. That is the key to understanding these last two articles, the thread that holds them together.
Grace and Peace,
Adsum Try Ravenhill is married to Anna and together they are passionate about seeing young men and women discipled within the context of the local church. You can find Adsum through his writing at The Raven’s Writing Desk and you can also find Adsum’s articles for GCD here.
This week at GCDiscipleship.com
Pay Careful Attention to Your Attention
by Bob Allen
Christian, I pray that you turn today from the foolish and empty and fleeting and instead pursue the excellent and praiseworthy and eternal. Fixate on the truths of God’s Word which correct and guide you to lives which reflect the glory of God. Work toward a knowledge that shapes your behavior to reflect the truth that acceptance from God is found through the blood Jesus shed on the cross, not by your own ability to keep God’s standard. Then seek to live a life that demonstrates God’s worthiness rather than your own.
Angry And Holy: How Your Anger Can Be Righteous
by Lara d’Entremont
Jesus’s anger is not merely the seamy side of his pity; it is the righteous reaction of his moral sense in the presence of evil. But Jesus burned with anger against the wrongs he met with in his journey through human life as truly as he melted with pity at the sight of the world’s misery: and it was out of these two emotions that his actual mercy proceeded.
Family Partners: Men and Women Serving Together In God’s Church
by Denise Hardy
One of the areas of weakness in most churches is that women need theology. As I took my position in women’s ministry, I knew this to be true. The focus of the roles of women had permeated our congregation to the point of women thinking they could just rely on men to know theology. God calls us each to know him, and then to live out our lives on this foundation.