Fighting for Joy in God: Receiving Creation Without Turning Gifts into Idols
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The Christian life frequently experiences seasons of spiritual dryness where a vibrant desire for God feels cold, distracted, or dull. In these times, believers are called to fight for joy by using the created world as a consecrated weapon rather than retreating into passive despair. Historically, the church has often fallen into two opposing errors: asceticism, which views the physical world with unbiblical suspicion, and carnal idolatry, which enjoys physical pleasures while forgetting the Giver…
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