{"id":1486,"date":"2011-02-24T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2011-02-24T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:35:53","slug":"sermon-follow-up-seek-things-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/sermon-follow-up-seek-things-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Follow-up: “Seek Things Above”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Sunday’s sermon, “Seek Things Above,”<\/a> Ryan preached from Colossians 3:1-4, where Paul exhorts us to “seek things that are above, where Christ is, not on things that are on earth.”<\/p>\n

Ryan quoted a helpful section from\u00c2\u00a0Jeremiah Burroughs’, A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness<\/a><\/em> (1649), where Burroughs expands on Paul’s words in Colossians 3:<\/p>\n

Earthly-Mindedness =<\/p>\n

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  1. When men look upon earthly things as the greatest things.<\/li>\n
  2. When their choicest thoughts are busied with earthly things.<\/li>\n
  3. When their hearts cleave to the earth.<\/li>\n
  4. When their hearts are filled with distracted cares about the world.<\/li>\n
  5. When the greatest endeavors of their lives are about earthly things.<\/li>\n
  6. When they seek any earthly thing for itself, and not in subordination to some higher and godly good.<\/li>\n
  7. When they are earthly in spiritual things.<\/li>\n
  8. When they conceive of the most heavenly truth in an earthly way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness<\/em> is available for purchase here<\/a> and download here<\/a>. If you would like to explore this theme more, consider buying Jason Stellman’s recent book, Dual Citizens: Worship and Life Between the Already and the Not Yet<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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