{"id":5376,"date":"2014-12-05T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2014-12-05T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T07:51:16","slug":"guidance-wisdom-and-the-will-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/guidance-wisdom-and-the-will-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance, Wisdom, and the Will of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October we began our new Sunday Adult Education class, called, Equip. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/equip\/\">Click here<\/a> for handouts from the class we just wrapped up, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/equip\/2014_10-11\/\">Joshua: Seeking Rest in the Land<\/a>,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0and to plan ahead for what classes you might\u00c2\u00a0join us for in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this Sunday, Tim Ragsdale will teach a class, titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/equip\/\">Guidance, Wisdom, and the Will of God<\/a>.&#8221; Join us at 10:45 in the West Wing on Sundays from here through January for this helpful class.<\/p>\n<p>On this important subject, Kevin DeYoung has written a helpful book, titled,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-Do-Something-Liberating-Approach\/dp\/0802458386\/desesprichur-20\"><em>Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God&#8217;s Will<\/em><\/a>. Here&#8217;s a quote to whet your appetite for our next session in Equip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness&#8211;not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making&#8211;just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God&#8217;s glory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKevin DeYoung<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pick up Kevin&#8217;s book at the Book Nook or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-Do-Something-Liberating-Approach\/dp\/0802458386\/desesprichur-20\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October we began our new Sunday Adult Education class, called, Equip. Click here for handouts from the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/guidance-wisdom-and-the-will-of-god\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}