Sugar Creek Baptist Church Closed for Holidays
Sugar Creek Baptist Church will be closed the next two weeks so we will not meet during that time. Please join our online Zoom meetings instead. Email info@castimonia.org for Zoom links.
In-person meetings will resume after the Holidays on Tuesday January 6th.
Religious Festivals
Originally posted at: http://www.theresstillhope.org
Amos 5:21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals.”
Steven Stoffelsen, founder of House of Refuge Street Ministries, writes, “God doesn’t want us to only know about him. He doesn’t want us to think of him as a cruel ruler that we can only come to if we have been really, really good. Rather, the privilege of getting to know him is ours. Consequently, as we get to know him, the more we will understand his goodness. And the more we understand his goodness, the more we will fall in love with him.”
Since the days of Amos, we have often fallen into the trap of worshiping the form instead of the substance. We make a god of the ritual, or religious festival.
Religious activities are not the end; they are the means to the end. Keep your eyes on Jesus, not the ritual.
Recovery Step: Hold no idols. Not even recovery. Set your eyes on the God of the ritual, not on the ritual of the God.
Castimonia Purity Podcast Episode 128 – Brian Shillingburg Interview
Join Chris today as he interviews Brian Shillingburg. Brian is the founder of 9th Inning Project, where he walks with men out of pornography and sexual compulsivity through honest conversation, courageous accountability, and the transforming power of Jesus Christ. A certified Sexual Addiction Recovery Coach (SARC) with a master’s in education, Brian has spent his 25-year career developing people, building teams, and mentoring men through life’s most defining challenges—drawing deeply from his own journey through addiction and redemption. He coaches men 1:1 and in small groups and equips churches and leaders with practical pathways toward reconciliation and lasting freedom.
Learn more: 9thInningProject.com | brian@9thinningproject.com
Choose Joy
