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Five Facts About Loving God
What is the relationship between loving God and neighbor, and how can both Jesus and Paul say that loving our neighbor fulfills the law (Matthew 7:12; Romans 13:8; Galatians 5:14)? Isn’t love for God...
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15 Quotes from ‘Jesus > Religion’
Jefferson Bethke has recently published Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough. The book’s title and content are inspired by his spoken-word...
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What to Neglect to Have a Rich Life
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians...
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Preachers, Find Your Voice
Christian preaching is not parroting.As desirable as it is to copy a skilled communicator, and as unavoidable as it is to imitate those who have shaped us most, there is good reason for a preacher to...
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Three Prayers for Facing Monday (Or Any Tomorrow)
This is one of those really deep, common truths — one which Jonathan Edwards expounds with the intellectual horsepower of a genius, and to which our most common experience testifies:Essential to our...
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When Jesus Haunts Your Halloween
Unclean spirits stir. Demonic thrones and dominions gather. Cosmic powers over this present darkness come to attention. And the devil himself, ready to devour and destroy, ignites his fiery darts and...
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The Undaunted Message of Freedom
“I think, therefore I am.” René Descartes penned this popular line in his 1637 treatise, Discourse on the Method, and it’s a good summary of the book itself. Heralding the importance of scientific...
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Parents, Require Obedience of Your Children
I am writing this to plead with Christian parents to require obedience of their children. I am moved to write this by watching young children pay no attention to their parents’ requests, with no...
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God’s Glory Wins
Not everyone will believe the gospel. Why?“God desires all people to be saved,” 1 Timothy 2:4 tells us. “God does not take pleasure in the death of anyone,” Ezekiel 18:32 says. Then why are there some...
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Jesus Saves
The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. (Luke 19:10)Christianity is summed up in these words: Jesus came to seek and save the lost. If we were asked to describe in a sentence the heart of the...
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The Reformation: Trick or Treat?
It’s no accident that October 31 is both Halloween and the day remembered for the start of the Reformation. Both key off November 1, All Saints’ Day — or All Hallows’ Day (Hallows from the Latin for...
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Is Everything Bigger and Better in Texas?
What is so good about the gospel? Have you ever asked yourself that question? What’s the biggest and best thing God promises us? What is it exactly that makes it such good news?In a sermon last week in...
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Lay Aside the Weight of Discontentment
I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger,...
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God’s Pleasure in You
Does God find pleasure in you? When he looks at you, does he smile?In short, if you’re in Christ, the answer is yes. But the answer to how and why and on what basis needs some explaining.We can break...
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Good News, Everyone’s Invited
Not everyone will believe the gospel, but everyone should be invited.We know from Scripture, and experience, that not everyone will trust in Jesus and be saved. In fact, many will not. Many today...
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A Better Country for Old Men
This is a plea from the younger generation to the older. We desperately need you.Please don’t phone it in just when the King’s about to call. Don’t retire on the world’s terms and abandon your...
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When the Vine Really Became Precious
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)It was a July morning in Manila in 1985 when...
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Why It Took Me 34 Years to Get ‘Peoples’
God created the world so that he would receive glad-hearted worship from the entire panorama of peoples that he himself brought into being for this purpose.Therefore, for the glory of God, and for the...
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The Idols of a Mother’s Heart
When you are upset because you can’t do something you’ve wanted to do, it might be because that thing has become an idol in your heart.I said these words one afternoon in response to one of my kids who...
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When God’s Promise Overcomes Our Problem
Paul said that the old covenant mediated by Moses bore a “ministry of condemnation” (2 Corinthians 3:9). What does this mean, and would Moses have agreed?The Book of Deuteronomy clarifies three things:...
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