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When God Does the Miracle We Didn’t Ask For
Countless childhood surgeries. Yearlong stints in the hospital. Verbal and physical bullying from classmates. Multiple miscarriages as a young wife. The unexpected death of a child. A debilitating...
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When Life Hurts
Monks go looking for a cross, thinking that they are pleasing God by their stoic resolve. We encounter this sometimes in our own circles today, as believers often feel obliged to smile in public even...
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Bind My Wandering Heart to Thee
In my observation and experience, the most loved verse from Robert Robinson’s hymn, “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is this one:O to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy...
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When God Works for You
But they who wait for the Lᴏʀᴅ shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)It’s not exactly...
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Was Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret the Same As Paul’s?
Hudson Taylor’s son and daughter-in-law wrote Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret in 1932. It is a brief narrative of Taylor’s life with a focus on the “secret” of his spiritual peace and strength.They...
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An Olympic Lesson for Husbands and Wives
Sochi is helping me be a better husband. And the Olympics are freshly making my wife to delight in her role as well. The surprising lesson is on display in figure skating pairs.At its best, this event...
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Looking to Christ in the Loss of a Child
The loss of a child is painful, deeply painful.Fifteen years ago, my wife and I experienced our first certain miscarriage. I was a new dad, and then, just like that, it was over. The loss was so...
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Now Available: New Messages on Union with Christ
John Owen once said that our knowledge of the Bible is useless unless it “forms Christ in the soul.” He means that unless truth leads us to Jesus or brings him to us, it stays lifeless and...
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Nine Lies in the Not-Yet-Married Life
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, perhaps one of the more polarizing holidays of our year. It’s very fun and exciting for the love birds, too commercial and insincere for the skeptics, and sometimes...
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Three Benefits of Discipleship
What happens when you get a group of women in a room to discuss life and the gospel?Talking. Lots of talking. And questions. More questions than you can imagine. Why? Because we need each other, and...
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Valentine’s Day Is for Getting Drunk
The evolution of Valentine’s Day has followed a course similar to the evolution of Santa Claus. It began with legends surrounding an obscure saint (actually, there’s more than one St. Valentine) from...
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When Hearts Are Tuned to Worship
I can almost hear the bells of our church steeple still ringing in my ear.Every Sunday morning as a child church bells would echo through our town. From our steeple tower, a proclamation would sound to...
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Put Yourself in the Path of God’s Grace
I can flip a switch, but I don’t provide the electricity. I can turn on a faucet, but I can’t make the water flow. There will be no light and no liquid refreshment without someone else providing it.And...
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How to Heal When the Church Hurts You
Churches really ought to be a refuge for the weary, a safe house for the broken, a rescue for the abused and mistreated. These local expressions of God’s gathered people are meant to offer the love,...
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A Tender Word for Pharisees
This Sunday I preached at Watermark Church in Dallas under the title “A Tender Word for Pharisees.” There are not many tender words for Pharisees in the mouth of Jesus. Mainly his words to Pharisees...
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If You Don’t Have a Dramatic Testimony
Everyone loves to hear an old-fashioned, rip-roaring, “glory!” conversion testimony.You know the kind I’m talking about. The dude who was a member of the Crips, a meth dealer, and a mob hit man before...
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Finding the Fatherless: A Call to Fill the Gap
It was my sophomore year in college. I sat frustrated in the office of our campus minister, Chad. I don’t exactly remember what I was frustrated about, just that I needed to vent and I knew Chad would...
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Believer, Become What You Are
Romans 12:1–2,I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed...
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The Chaos of Humility
Humility, for many of us, might just be mild-mannered niceness. We like to think of it all buttoned up and soft-spoken, cloaked in the quiet gray sweater his grandmother made, sitting by the modest...
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The Greatest Victory in All of History
Why did Jesus die? You might have your favorite answer or verse.He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with...
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