为门徒洗脚

当时,耶稣被圣灵引到旷野,受魔鬼的试探”(太4：1)。首次读到此节经文,着实令人有点费解和疑问：圣灵怎么和魔鬼同工呢?甚至好像是魔鬼试探耶稣的助手?一般人的理解：圣灵和魔鬼不会联系在一起,因他们的终极目的和工作范畴迥然不同。圣灵使人谦卑,为罪为义为审判自己责备自己;而魔鬼叫人骄傲,自高自大自己炫耀自己。圣灵是带领人明白一切真理,清楚地认识神、亲近神;而魔鬼是叫人在神的真理上糊涂,不认识神、远离神。圣灵感动人悔改,使灵魂得救,走永     

圣灵来了

圣灵的工作很多,圣灵来了,他要让人为罪、为义、为审判自己责备自己,这三个词均无定冠词,所以,不是指个人方面,是指世人。“责备”原是法庭用语,有“暴露、说服”之意,此处指“暴露罪恶”,因此圣灵在人心中的工作分为三步：     

祈求仁爱与慈悲彰显

正主啊,你造我们是为了你,如果我们的心不安息在你的里面,便得不到安宁。我们诚恳地把自己的心摆在你面前,愿我们的灵魂安静谦卑,倾听圣灵的声音,得到圣灵的指引。主啊,若没有圣灵,我们怎能明白神的事情呢?即使像西面那样又公义又虔诚的人,素常盼望以色列的安慰者来到,但如果没有圣灵在他身上,如果没有圣灵的启示,他如何知道自己在未死以前,必看见主所立的基督呢?如果没有圣灵的感动,他又如何亲眼看见神的救     

让圣灵动工

如何对待里面的圣灵,是信徒属灵生命最关键性的问题。因为惟独随从圣灵,才有生命与平安,有的信徒即或信了,但好像不知道里面有圣灵,就是知道,也好像不觉得圣灵的同在和运行。这样的话,在属灵的事上,对神和基督就无法认识,在生命的路上就寸步难行。 一、圣灵与我们 我们首先要知道神在信徒身上一切的工作,都是藉圣灵作的。主耶稣从死里复活升上高天,坐在父的右边,那么,他大能的手,怎样做工     

什么叫"亵渎圣灵"

不少弟兄姊妹问我“亵渎圣灵”是怎么一回事?犯这种罪为什么今生来世永不得赦免?有人更具体地问:我的情况算不算亵渎圣灵?有一位弟兄,多次写信给我,说他老是担心自己犯了“亵渎圣灵”的罪,怕自己不得救,所以痛苦得不得了。他甚至说:“如果能解决我的问题,要我倾家荡产也愿意!”可见,这是一个必须明白的问题。 首先要知道,“亵渎圣灵”是专门针对当时那些敌挡耶稣的法利赛人说的,今天我们不可以随     

渴望救恩曙光

在耶路撤冷有一个人名叫西面。这人叉公义叉虔诚,素常盼望以色列的安慰者来到,又有圣灵在他身上。他得了圣灵的启示,知道自己未死以前,必看见主所立的基督。他受了圣灵的感动,进入圣殿,正遇见耶稣的父母抱着孩子进来,要照律法的规矩办理。西面就用手接过他来,称颂神说:“主啊,如今可以照你的话,释放仆人安然去世,因为我的眼睛已经看见你的救恩,就是你在万民面前所预备的,是照亮外邦人的光,又是你民以色列的荣耀”(路2:25-32)。     

基督耶稣的心是柔和谦卑(新年篇一)

圣灵的感化,是圣灵借着我们的环境、疾病、难处、痛苦的遭遇等等来管教、治理我们,借着神的道来教导我们,使我们的心灵得到更新,我们用信心接受神诸般的恩典。用信心来遵行神的旨意,让神的旨意得以成全在我们个人身上,成全在我们的家庭中、教会中、以至社会上。     

神计划,神管理,神成全

常常听说“我受圣灵感动……”常看见一些人很容易热血沸腾,要行善、要祈祷、要读经、要唱诗、要服侍神。只是他们一阵热气之后,爱主之心就烟消云散了,热心时,他们说是受圣灵感动,但灰心时,他们是否认为圣灵不再感动,圣灵离开了他们呢?圣经中不缺少受圣灵感动的例子,我们应当正确认识。圣经中更告诉我们神是一位有计划、有组织、会管理的神。我们对神的工作方式、意图若缺乏了解,我们就不能按他的心意去行,去规范我们服侍神的心态、动机、目的以及明白最后要承受的结局。从神带领以色列民族出埃及这一特大历史事件,我们了解到神的心意。首先,创世记16章13至14节神在亚伯拉罕在世时就预备了亚伯拉罕之后裔寄居别人之地400年后要领他们出来。     

他就是这样的牧者——缅怀叶保罗牧师

“我听见从天上有声音说：‘你要写下,从今以后,在主里面而死的人有福了！’圣灵说：‘是的,他们息了自己的劳苦,作工的果效也随着他们。’”     

男人危险的试探

耶稣被圣灵充满,从约旦河回来,圣灵将他引到旷野,四十天受魔鬼的试探。那些日子没有吃什么,日子满了,他就饿了。魔鬼对他说：“你若是神的儿子,可以吩咐这块石头变成食物。”耶稣回答说：“经上记着说：‘人活着不是单靠食物。乃是靠神口里所出的一切话。’”魔鬼又领他上了高山,霎时间把天下的万国都指给他看,对他说：     

From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio

Lacking the size, talent, and speed to play shortstop for the New York Yankees, I chose instead to become a psychologist/psychoanalyst. Yet, baseball and psychoanalysis share much in common. Each is played in the inner diamonds of one's mind, values the past and what is passing, and requires a strong work ethic. Both are timeless and involve an almost boring leisureliness between occasional moments of crisis. Then too, each calls for an attitude of consistency and patience and a responsibility to do one's best. From my parents and brother to my wife and son and his family, from my teachers and supervisors to my colleagues, and from Menninger to the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), I feel deeply grateful for the partners and teammates I have and have had.     

How Not to Apply to College

Samples of letters written by college students are excerpted to demonstrate the deterioration of students' writing skills. The relative unimportance many college students and graduates attach to the art of writing letters of inquiry is emphasized. A checklist is provided to assist students in preparing letters requesting information from colleges and universities.     

From object to image to object

Images are mental representations accommodated by grammatical structures. These structures order sensori-input of information as well as provide for articulated ways of expressing motor sequences associated with images. The psychological process of perception is reflected in the development of paradigmatic structures. The psychological process of action (behavior and its mental representations) is reflected in the development of syntagmatic structures. Forming and expressing imagery requires both paradigmatic and syntagmatic structuring. The former relates to logical issues of identity of objects and to the formation of concepts. The latter relates to the solution of psycho-logical questions of causality through articulation of grammatical roles in sentences. Two issues affecting the formation of a model to account for imagery are examined: (1) The tendency to explain imagery as a result of motor sequences and to utilize performance grammar. (2) The impact of ontogenesis on social processes affecting the logical and psycho-logical concerns facing the person at different stages of development. The grammar of imagery is seen as broader than one of performance. The epistemology of imagemaking does not reflect a linear ontogenetic development which precludes attention to problems of creating the logical structures of an object.     

From Biology to Consciousness to Morality

Abstract. Social animals are provisioned with prosocial orientations that operate to transcend self‐interest. Morality, as used here, describes human versions of such orientations. We explore the evolutionary antecedents of morality in the context of emergentism, giving considerable attention to the biological traits that undergird awareness and our emergent human forms of mind. We suggest that our moral frames of mind emerge from our primate prosocial capacities, transfigured and valenced by our symbolic languages, cultures, and religions.     

Reply to Letter to the Editor

The current policy of the National Institute of Health designed to increase the participation of women and minorities is radically different from previous policies designed to protect minorities from abuses in research studies. The principal arguments to support this policy are twofold: 1) Increased representation of minorities and women in research would increase the generalizability of research data and allow for valid analyses of differences in subpopulations; and 2) being in a clinical research study is advantageous to participants regardless of the final research study results. It remains unclear whether minorities find these arguments compelling. Instead of telling minorities that participation in research is good for them, the research community should focus on understanding what minority communities want from clinical research and then tailoring the message to meet this need. Persuasive arguments to promote long-term increased representation of minorities in clinical research must come from within minority communities.