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Don’t Be a Wedding Crasher
In Matthew 22:1–14, Jesus tells a parable about a wedding feast. Unlike most wedding feasts, however, this one involves a king and his son, some ornery invitees, cold-blooded murder, the destruction of...
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Missional Motherhood
The clarion call to repent and believe the gospel message reverberates all over the world. Evangelism is happening in remote jungles where missionary planes land on runways of grass, in coffee shops...
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Great Losses, Severe Mercies, Tearful Joy
Do you have a view of God, and his severe mercy, that is robust and biblical enough to flourish with tearful joy, under heartbreaking losses, which he ordains as discipline?What if you thought God took...
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Four Things to Teach Your Children This Easter
Spring is upon us. Flowers are beginning to bud, leaves are reappearing on trees, and birds are building their nests. Signs and decorations herald the arrival of our favorite season when we walk into...
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Don’t Give Up on Joy
You don’t have to wallow in sadness.Ben Stuart says this realization was one of the greatest gifts God gave him in his fight against sadness. He learned from the Psalms that we could push back against...
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When Scripture Is the Controversy
If we learned anything from last week, maybe it’s that the real controversy among evangelicals in the coming days will be about the Bible, not homosexuality.Beneath the surface of the recent scuffle is...
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Whose Approval Do You Crave?
When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. (Matthew...
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Six Lessons in Good Listening
Listening is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do, and one of the hardest.In a sense, listening is easy — or hearing is easy. It doesn’t demand the initiative and energy required in speaking....
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God Wants You to Know How Much He Loves You
The greatest love you can know is when someone lays down his life for you (John 15:13). Especially when you were an enemy when he laid his life down for you (Romans 5:10).And that’s when Jesus laid his...
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Why God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle
The next time someone says that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, point them to Judges chapter seven. God instructing Gideon to take on over 100,000 enemy soldiers with just 300 fits in the...
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One Shining Moment — And Everyone Else a Loser
What does every athletic team in the world have in common with every reality-TV-show contestant at the end of each season? All, except one, go home with a loss on their mind.While watching our premier...
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Preach the Gospel to Yourself
No one is more influential in your life than you are. Because no one talks to you more than you do.So observes Paul Tripp — and in doing so, he accents our need to daily preach the gospel to...
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Serving Appetizers: Worship Services That Keep Their Promises
As a worship pastor, I am saddened to read polls reporting young people leaving our churches. True, this happens in each generation (remember the Boomer-angs who returned to church in the 1990s?), but...
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The Joy of Getting Unstuck
I’m busy.Like you, I’ve got a hundred things going on between family and church and work and all the in between. Let me be the first to say that all of these things are absolute gifts from God. He has...
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The Cup Consumed for Us
Matthew shows us an odd exchange between Jesus and his disciples.In Matthew 20:20–28, the mother of James and John, in typical motherly fashion, asks Jesus whether her nice, upstanding sons can sit...
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Six Lessons in Good Listening
Listening is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do, and one of the hardest.In a sense, listening is easy — or hearing is easy. It doesn’t demand the initiative and energy required in speaking....
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God Wants You to Know How Much He Loves You
The greatest love you can know is when someone lays down his life for you (John 15:13). Especially when you were an enemy when he laid his life down for you (Romans 5:10).And that’s when Jesus laid his...
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Why God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle
The next time someone says that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, point them to Judges chapter seven. God instructing Gideon to take on over 100,000 enemy soldiers with just 300 fits in the...
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Ten Lessons from a Hospital Bed
Recently I spent 30 hours in the hospital. I won’t tantalize you with details, but you can tell by this blog, I’m still alive. In fact, I feel good. I received good care, a clear diagnosis, some new...
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When Evil Dug Its Own Grave
When you’re in the middle of intense suffering, it’s easy to lose your bearings.Questions arise reflexively: Is God really in control? How can a good God allow so much pain? Is God good?The pain that...
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