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What Dead Abel Speaks to Us
The story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4 tells much more about Cain than Abel. In fact, not one word is recorded from living Abel. But the author of Hebrews says that, “through [Abel’s] faith, though he...
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The Closing Ceremonies and the End of History
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games have become events themselves, bookends to the highly anticipated competitions they bracket. Given the estimated billion people who watched both...
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Is the Preaching Any Good?
One of the most fundamental truths to understand about the church’s corporate gathering is that Jesus is a giver.Jesus, our Savior and salvation — the one to whom we are united by faith — gave himself...
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Shape Your Life with the Words of Life
The Christian life, from start to finish, is utterly dependent on the grace of God.Not only do we come into spiritual life by sheer grace (Act 18:27; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 2:5), but it is in divine...
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There’s Nothing Short About Short-Term Missions
Are our short-term “missions” trips really helping the cause of missions?By “missions,” I mean the process of Christians from reached people groups sharing the gospel with unreached people groups...
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Will America Be Judged?
The reason the gospel of Jesus is precious is that it offers joyful rescue from furious judgment. The Bible speaks of the “fury of the wrath of God the Almighty” (Revelation 19:15). And the Bible...
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Worship That’s Out of This World
The gospel all at once puts us at home in every culture and at odds with every culture.Christ wants to and will make his home in every culture on the planet. This faith is not restrained to Jews, and...
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Preparing Teens for College (And Adulthood)
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. (Psalm 127:4)Raising teens to be faithful Christian adults has never been easy. Like us, our children enter this world as sinners...
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Five Truths About the Resurrection of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus is foundational to the Christian faith, and yet, oftentimes, we only give it real thought around the Easter season.But the resurrection of Jesus is so important that Paul...
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Isn’t It Ironic?
Alanis Morissette’s album Jagged Little Pill debuted in 1995, just as the first wave of Millennials was crashing into America’s high schools. Her music became one of the soundtracks for these critical...
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Meet the Family of God
There is no denying the importance of family. My husband and children are my first priority and God’s gift to me. When my husband is discouraged, it’s a privilege to come alongside him and encourage...
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Some Historical Roots of African American Big God Theology
Year after year our awareness of the historical evidence increases that “Big God Theology” is indigenous to African American leadership from the beginnings of the Christian conversion of Blacks on this...
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Is Tim Keller Weak on Wrath?
I may have been the first blogger to accuse Tim Keller publicly for what I perceived to be his passive (and weak) view of God’s wrath in the wake of his book, The Reason For God (2008). My response was...
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Why We Shouldn’t Neglect to Meet Together
Have you ever thought of this simply stunning statement by God as a reason why we are to gather together in corporate worship?It is not good that the man should be alone. (Genesis 2:18)What’s so...
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When God Says Wait
The life of faith involves the miracle of seeing above your circumstances. It means we grasp the unseen that’s been promised, that we orient our lives in the time at hand, on the yet to come.Psalm 37...
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The Danger in Our Daily Devotions
Do we really need to read our Bible every day?Happy is the man who does (Psalm 1:1). “His delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night” (1:2). God’s words revive the...
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How to Count It All As Loss
What does it mean to count everything as loss for the sake of Christ? What does it mean to renounce all that we have for Christ’s sake?Paul said he does this. “I count everything as loss because of the...
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Recovering Awe
Pride cannibalizes awe. When our thoughts drift to how we have been poorly treated, how we are right or deserving of more, or how we will never be good enough, our worship is devoured, eaten up by the...
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Enjoy the Gift of Having God’s Ear
He is “the God of all grace” (1 Peter 5:10). Not only did he choose us before the world began, and give his Son to save us, and cause us to be born again, but he also sustains the whole of our...
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Our Holy, Stubborn Song
There’s something stubborn about singing praise to God.We live in a fallen world. Things are not as they ought to be. How can our mouths be filled with praise in the midst of so much darkness?Yet we...
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