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Don’t Do God’s Will Like an Atheist
After my message to the Liberty University student body last week, a perceptive student asked this clarifying question: So you don’t believe that altruistic acts are possible or desirable?I asked for...
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Free Saeed: A Wife’s Plea to Iran’s President
Thursday marks one year since Iran imprisoned my husband, Pastor Saeed Abedini, for his Christian faith. When the Iranian Revolutionary Guard arrested Saeed without warning and took him to the...
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Recovering the Lost Art of Chivalry
They say that chivalry is dead, that the medieval ideal of the humble knight is laid low in the dust. They were saying the same in C.S. Lewis’s day. And Lewis, rather than lamenting the loss of...
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Jesus Is Not Your Sin-Manager
What comes to mind when you think of the word “financial debt?” College loans? Low-budget TV commercials? Interminable stress and prolonged discouragement?These are all possible, and understandable,...
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The Strange Glory of Ordinary Things
Clyde Kilby was born September 26, 1902. He may have been my most influential teacher when I was in college. But then again it may have been Stuart Hackett. Kilby was a romantic — like C. S. Lewis....
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Lewis Live-Stream Free for All
The fun begins early Friday afternoon. First it’s the seminars, then the opening plenary. Saturday brings four main sessions and a panel with the speakers. And the grand finale comes Sunday morning...
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I Hate Porn
Pornography is a problem.Porn is like a narcotic, it hijacks the brain, it redefines human sexuality, and in the meantime ruins lives, destroys families, and destabilizes ministries. And honestly it’s...
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The Subtle Art of Destroying Humans
My dearest Grubnat,I am glad to see you are finally learning to be subtler in manipulating your human. As I had warned you, I was concerned that your boisterous assault on the unborn vermin with the...
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The Remarkable Reality of Union with Christ
It may be the most important doctrine you’ve never heard of.So says Kevin DeYoung about the reality of “union with Christ” — and sadly it seems he’s right.But hopefully you aren’t among that number —...
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Cooking for Eternity: The Story of Jeff Ansorge
ST. PAUL, MN — Jeff Ansorge is a trim 40-year-old with buzzed hair and sideburns that are mostly silver and thick eyebrows that are mostly black. He’s a quiet, t-shirted Midwestern guy who can be found...
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Lecrae Unwraps His Joy in Jesus
How do you pursue joy in Jesus? I mean what does it really look like — like today? How about when things are crazy at work or tense at home? If God made us to enjoy him, we have something infinitely...
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The Powerful Glory of Yielding Power
Perhaps the only thing harder for prideful humans than humbly wielding power is humbly yielding power.And the most beautiful Old Testament example of this is the way Jonathan yielded Israel’s throne to...
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Why Did God Forbid One Tree in Eden?
Of the many trees in the Garden, God banned Adam and Eve from eating from one — just one (Genesis 2:16–17, 3:1–3, 11). Why? John Piper recently gave the question some fresh thinking, which he shares in...
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Four Keys to Satisfying Your Starving Soul
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious...
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Jesus Doesn’t Love You Like That
Either Jesus died to save his church or he didn’t. There isn’t a third option.Either he gave himself up for his bride, as Ephesians 5:25 tells us, or he died to create the possibility of her salvation...
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What the Church Can Learn from Chick-fil-A
The cows started writing on billboards in the Twin Cities metro earlier this year. End of Burgerz — Koming Soon.These bovines can’t spell, but we got the message — especially those of us Minnesotans...
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Our Children for Our Joy
I dropped my son off at his school and yelled my usual through the rolled down window, “I love you. Make good choices. Obey your teacher.” As I began to roll up the window and drive away, my little...
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A Whole World Hangs on a Word
Sometimes a whole world — a whole theology — hangs on a word.Consider the word “this” in Ephesians 2:8. Does it refer to “faith” or “grace” or both? Is faith a gift of God?For by grace you have been...
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Simple Greatness: The Story of My Hmong Father
How is the gospel real to you? This was a question that I was asked in college.As part of a campus ministry, I heard the word “gospel” thrown around a lot, but as for how it was real to me, that wasn’t...
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A Beer with Jesus?
Is it a sin for me to drink alcohol? It could be, says Pastor John in today’s episode of the Ask Pastor John podcast.“I’m a default teetotaler,” he says. “And what that means is if I have my choice, I...
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