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20 Quotes on Loneliness
Loneliness can be an embarrassing topic we don’t like to talk about or admit to. Yet all of us are familiar with it, to some degree, because loneliness is an inescapable consequence of the fall.” No...
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Five Truths About the Death of Jesus
Grace is at the heart of the Christian faith. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than at the cross of Christ. It is grace that the Son of God took on flesh, and grace that he taught us how to live — but...
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The Insanity of Leaning on Our Own Understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5–6)When the Bible tells us in this verse...
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God Is Bigger Than Your Sin
We have all been evil and received evil. The shame of sin and the pain of being sinned against are universally felt in every human heart because we’re born into sin and into a world of sinners. Sin...
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Meeting with God
It is Saturday night, and my wife and I are just about to tuck our second batch of kids into bed. Yup, that’s right, our birth children are all grown up now, and for some crazy reason, we’ve adopted...
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The Problem with Jesus
When it comes to outreach, we have a problem with Jesus.Not a problem with who Jesus is, of course. Jesus is the answer to all our deepest questions and longings. He is the compassionate one the broken...
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Four Kinds of Churches Worth Leaving
The saddest stories I hear from parents raising a child with a disability don’t involve schools, insurance companies, or hospitals. The stories that elicit the most bitter words, and tears, are the...
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15 Prayers for God’s Power
I love strength. I love the word “mighty,” as in “Mighty Woman of God,” and “Mighty Man of God.” I love to hear that “Moses was mighty in his words and deeds” (Acts 7:22), and that Apollos was “mighty...
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Right Thinking Is for Deep Feeling
Doctrine is for the sake of delight. Christian theology does not exist for its own sake, but for our desiring and enjoying Christ.Simply put, the mind is meant to serve the heart. Thinking serves...
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Learn to Fly in the Fellowship
It’s a shame the word “fellowship” has fallen on hard times in some circles, and is dying the death of domestication and triviality. It is an electric reality in the New Testament, an indispensable...
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The Dead Snake Handler and the Dead Poet’s Society
On February 15, Jamie Coots, pastor of Full Gospel Tabernacle in Middlesboro, Kentucky, and co-star of National Geographic’s reality show Snake Salvation, died from a snakebite to the hand....
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See Through the Sour Wine
It was an act of cruelty, not comfort. That is what we see in the last minutes of Jesus’s life, as described in the Gospel of Mark.Customary of Mark, he gets straight to the point in Mark 15:33. The...
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Once Confused, Now Complementarian
I sat wide-eyed across the table from my new friend Courtney in our college cafeteria. I had just told her I was interested in a guy who sat near me in my freshman biology class. My plan was to go to...
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Nine Practical Pointers for Plodders
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:14)Today is going to be a challenge.You will not make perfect plans. You will not work your plans...
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God Is with You in Depression
Depression is often illusive. Some dark cloud gathers and hangs overhead. You feel constantly ill at ease. Whether triggered by negative events, or some undefined cause, you know despondency when you...
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Idolatry in Corporate Worship
What’s your greatest hindrance to worshiping God as you gather with the church for corporate worship?I can think of a number of possible answers: Our song leader isn’t very experienced. The liturgy is...
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Remember Saint Patrick
Saint Patty’s Day is for the pagans.You might say it that way, and then militantly wash your Christian hands of all the carousing and empty revelry that makes all things Irish into an excuse for a...
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Extraordinary Help for Gospel Productivity
Does God care about how productive we are? He does. Deeply. Consider:Our fruitfulness reflects on Jesus: “By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples” (John...
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Lesbian Sex, HIV, Esau, and Christ
It was a vexing, soul-stirring, Sunday morning.First came my devotions, flaming with the words of Jesus on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Second was a New York...
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Women, Work, and Our Crisis of Identity
Several years ago, I spoke to a friend at a church event who had been influential as a lawyer for the cause and practice of religious freedom. She had been single for many years, but now was recently...
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