Bill Wyler

Psalm 119:35

“Direct me in the path of Your commands, for there I find delight.” Psalm 119:35 (NIV)

Lead me and give me guidance and use me. Do a work within me both to will and to do whatever You command. May I be given the ability and a willing mind to walk in the course of Your Holy Scriptures. I’m in need of fresh supplies of grace and more spiritual strength, for the battle here is hard and difficult; sometimes victory seems so elusive to me. But I so delight with great pleasure in Your Word; it’s peace to a troubled heart and a charm that draws me back again to Your heart and path.

June 13, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Bible, Life, Religion | Leave a comment

Our Father…

We, who are saints by adoption, should address the first person of the Trinity in prayer as “our Father” partly:

To secure a respectful fear of Him,
To secure boldness and freedom of speech before Him,
To express our trustful confidence in Him,
To express our faithful interest in Him,
To express our relationship to Him because we have experienced His paternal love and the witnessing of the Spirit of our adoption.

So well said by John Gill of the 1700’s.

April 14, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Life, Religion | Leave a comment

Regrets The Shack

Artist ‘Deeply Regrets’ Designing ‘Shack’ Cover, Says A Loving God Must “Judge”

Apr 10, 2017 by Will Maule

The graphic artist who played a central role in designing the cover for the controversial novel ‘The Shack’ has said he deeply regrets working on the project, now disagreeing with the book’s contentious theology.

“[O]ver 10 years ago, I was captivated by the story and felt honored to be part of the graphic creation of the book. I was so drawn into it, wanting to know the God it portrayed,” Dave Aldrich of Aldrich Design posted on Facebook. “The Shack’s story wonderfully painted this picture to me of an incredibly knowable and loving God, one full of forgiveness, but without being judgmental.”

Aldrich began to read Rob Bell, Brian McLaren and others, and quickly realized he was on a path to holding universalist beliefs. “I thank the Lord that He pulled me back from that edge,” Aldrich wrote. He realized that if God is full of love, he must also be a righteous judge.

“The fact is that there are two inseparable sides to God. He is both love and judge,” he said. “The movie release of ‘The Shack’ has brought all this back to my mind and I felt the need to apologize to all who I may have led astray by my promoting the book,” he wrote. “I look back and see how little discernment I had. And I regret and apologize also for waiting this long to publicly share this.”

“Many will still say that the book was intended as just a work of fiction, but the author himself, William Paul Young, is quoted as saying, ‘The Shack is theology. But it is a theology wrapped in a story,’” Aldrich noted.

This article appeared on the website Hello Christian at https://hellochristian.com/7153-artist-deeply-regrets-designing-shack-cover-says-a-loving-god-must-judge

April 12, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Culture, Religion | GOD | Leave a comment

Surrender and Captivity

Today I’m reflecting on the 10th chapter of 2 Corinthians, verse 5; especially the part on “…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ..”. It is a passage that seems to be nearly impossible for the common man since most of us have so many random thoughts throughout any day.

Yet every thought should have some light shed on them; whether they are of God or honor Gim or whether they are of evil character. Every thought should be illuminate with the divine light of our Lord. So how is this done?

By reading the word of God, the Bible; for there is no other written text that contains God’s Word and his truth to set us free from evil and sin. Each of us need to receive and eagerly accept all of God’s truths and doctrines with faith and love, and obey them deeply from the heart. All His commands and ordinances are to be submitted to happily and without complaint.

I have taken by the grace of God which is his free and unmerited favor; none of which I deserve. As an enlightened and regenerated soul by the work of the Holy Spirit, all of my strongholds, reasonings, and high thoughts are now demolished by the power of God in the gospel. I find myself carried away captive, but not against my will. For I have chosen to be a voluntary subject of Christ and to cheerfully, happily, and willingly be submit to the sovereignty of Christ Jesus and to the deceptive of His Kingdom forever more.

Thank you to the writings of John Gill on this subject.

March 15, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Religion | Leave a comment

The Fortress I Built…

Sometimes spiritual fortresses are a man’s own self-righteousness, his own holiness, his good works, and moral duties that he performs. He entrenches himself there and thinks himself to be safe. He has established in his mind a belief so firmly that change is very difficult; if not unlikely by his own strength and will.

Only a total surrender to Jesus Christ, where the man opens the barred door of his life or the gate of his fortress where Jesus is knocking and calling his name (Revelation 3:20).