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New Feature: Messages
Just want to let you know I’ve added a page under the Podcasts menu called Messages. What, pray tell, is the difference? Well, it’s simple: all messages are podcasts, but not all podcasts are messages....
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What to Do When You’re Sinking
We all know the story of Jesus and Peter walking on water, but some things about it struck me differently today. First, Jesus made the disciples get into that boat and sail on ahead of Him INTO A STORM...
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How to Combat Spiritual Warfare
I’m a little Type A (my score: 14/16). I’m also slightly sarcastic. But you know this already. I have a point. It’s coming. It will be here soon. Oh, yes, when I am told to do something at which I am...
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What do you want me to do for you?
“What do you want me to do for you?” (Matthew 20:32). Jesus had asked this question of two blind people. And you can guess how they replied. “Lord, we want our sight,” (Matthew 20:33). And you know...
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Next Class: Evangelism without Confrontation
The majority of Christians understand that we have a responsibility to share the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ with others (Matthew 28:19). But we don’t do it. For a lot of reasons. In...
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How to Have the Same Mindset as Christ Jesus
It’s been a crazy two weeks for our family. An unexpected event has turned our world upside down. We’ve grieved. We’ve felt angry. We’ve felt hurt. We’ve had to process those emotions with the Lord and...
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Us Versus Them
In any kind of conflict, we humans instinctively feel defensive. Whether it’s a tiff with a spouse, a disagreement with a friend, or an argument with a boss, we immediately adopt an “us versus them”...
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Rest
The baby wiggled uncomfortably in my arms, whining with his eyes closed. Over-stimulated and over-tired from the overflow of love my young daughters had been pouring on him all morning, my best...
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The One Thing We Can’t Lose
My heart fell as I watched this pastor whom I’ve never heard preach, whom I’ve never met personally, whose books I’ve never read, and whose church I’ve never set foot in tearfully apologize to his...
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Why We Need to Know Why We Believe What We Believe
The woman overheard me telling someone else I am teaching high schoolers at church. That must’ve piqued her interest because she asked in a positively curious tone, “Oh, what are you teaching?”...
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Cheap Grace
I started reading a Bonhoeffer book last week. He wrote it in the 1930’s, but it reads as if he wrote it yesterday. Is the price that we are paying today with the collapse of organized churches...
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What is the purpose of the Church?
“What is the purpose of the Church?” The question gave me pause. I didn’t have a memorized answer I could just spout off when I read those words a couple of months ago. I guess that’s because I hadn’t...
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True and False Disciples
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” – Jesus As I read Matthew 7 this morning, this verse...
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Some 700 years before Jesus was born, a prophet said of Him, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,...
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New Feature: Messages
Just want to let you know I’ve added a page under the Podcasts menu called Messages. image via Rasmus Thomsen/freedigitalphotos.net What, pray tell, is the difference? Well, it’s simple: all messages...
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