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Why Boldness Matters Now
The Book of Acts profiles a people living bold.The theme of boldness takes center-stage in Acts 4 with the story of Peter’s and John’s trial before the Sanhedrin. We learn that what astonishes the...
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14 Free eBooks for You
Twenty percent of all the books sold last year were electronic, says the latest report from Bookstats. This simply means that ebooks are still on the rise. More and more users like to carry their...
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Is There a Key to Godliness?
Whether you are in your twenties or sixties, you probably have some long-standing heart-responses you don’t like. These are like reflexes. You don’t choose them. They spring up unintentionally from...
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Our Choices Matter
Max McLean, the lead actor and director of the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, has performed the role of Screwtape hundreds of times since the play debuted in 2010. This means that...
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Love Is More Than a Choice
This is a gentle pushback on a popular slogan.There is truth in saying, “love is a choice” or “love is a decision.” It is true that if you don’t feel like doing good to your neighbor love will incline...
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In and Out, In a Blaise of Glory
Few have written with such passion and economy of expression. Rarely does one turn such manifest angst to articulation and channel such blood-earnestness into precise words.Blaise Pascal burned with...
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Jesus Is with Me to the End of the Age (and the Week’s Ironing)
There is no shortage of sympathizing authenticity available to help moms absorb the impact of life in the trenches. Strangers, friends, blogs, and books freely offer their candid encouragements. I...
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A Chance to Help Desiring God
Update 6/26We have received $225,000 of the $255,000 that we need in order for us to close-out our fiscal year in the black and balance the budget. Thank you for your generous support! Dear Friends,As...
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What Makes Women Happy?
“If only I had ________, I’d be happy.”We have all felt this at some point in our lives. It’s the idea that we’ll discover the happiness we desire if we could only improve our circumstances. It’s...
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Lay Aside the Weight of Self-Preoccupation
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of...
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God’s Gracious Path to Costly Obedience
Imagine Abraham, living a life of security in Ur of the Chaldeans, but knowing that God had called him to leave it all for a land he did not know. That would have been costly.And Abraham is not alone....
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A Voyage into Narnia
It’s often very handy to have a professor as a friend.“The Professor,” Digory Kirke, proved to be a well-travelled and advantageous ally for the children in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and our...
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The Thrilling “Now” of Christian Mission
Just think of it. The God of the universe focused his special revelation and redeeming work on one small ethnic people, Israel, for 2,000 years — from the calling of Abram in Genesis 12 to the coming...
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The Boldness of Knowing Jesus
The people of Jesus should know Jesus. That is the inescapable impression we get from reading the Book of Acts. We see it in the church’s boldness— that is, the church’s outspoken clarity about the...
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Seeing Pleasure Through a Demon’s Eyes
Max McLean, director and lead actor in the theatrical adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, goes in character to describe the demonic perspective on pleasure.From the book, page 44:Never forgot that...
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How the Bible Answers the Question, “Where Is Your God?”
I wish we could write about the sovereignty of God in a lull between calamities. But there is none.If I were to say we are between tsunamis or tornadoes, someone would say, “That tree just fell on my...
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The Introvert Pastor
Jared Wilson is an introvert and a pastor, which in some circles is an irreconcilable paradox. So how exactly does a pastor wisely lead people when his energy is so quickly depleted by being around...
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A Christian Guide to the Zoo
Summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, and if you haven’t yet made a family visit to the zoo, perhaps it’s just around the corner.The zoo is a wonderful opportunity for the Christian —...
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New Poem: ‘Lady Choice’
playpauseFour thousand times an hour, or more, Each day and night, since I was six Weeks old inside my mother's womb,My trusty heart (a metaphor Of what?) with ceaseless double clicks...
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20 Quotes from Finally Free
The following quotes were taken from Heath Lambert’s excellent forthcoming book, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Zondervan; August 8), now available for pre-order.“Every...
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