Sermonette: Being Double-Minded <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) John Ritenbaugh, reminding us that to be double-minded is discouraged in James 4:8, suggests that there are contexts in which double-mindedness may be useful. A recent Olympic medaled swimmer, realizing that he had devoted his entire life to his craft, came to a conclusion that he had to "get a life" because there is more to life than swimming. When one endeavors to be a star athlete, he must sacrifice a tremendous amount, preventing the living of a normal life. James’ caution about double-mindedness concerns trying to split our focus between God and the world. Double-mindedness in the positive sense includes living in the present, learning lessons in order to prepare for a future responsibility in God’s Kingdom. As Christians, we must always live in the present, but with a view to the future. There should never be a disconnect between present experiences we are undergoing and the future application of the present lessons we are learning. Christianity must be practiced as a way of life—in the present and with a view to the future. Caleb and Joshua demonstrated a healthy double-mindedness, living in the present with a view to the future, something we must emulate in practical Christian living. <\/p>\n
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Sermonette: Being Double-Minded It’s O.K. But it Must be Disciplined #1121AMs John W. Ritenbaugh Given 17-Sep-12; 18 minutes listen: description: (hide) John Ritenbaugh, reminding us that to be double-minded is discouraged in James 4:8, suggests that there are contexts in which double-mindedness may be useful. A recent Olympic medaled swimmer, realizing that he had devoted … Continue reading “Sermonette: Being Double-Minded”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}