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Love the Single Chapter of Your Life
It's just a fact, young people in America — even in the church — are getting married later and later. This means there are more men and women that are unhappily not-yet-married long into their...
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An Excellent New Book on Justification
If a thoughtful layman asked me what he should read to understand the doctrine of justification in relationship to the New Perspective on Paul, I would send him to Stephen Westerholm’s new book,...
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The Universe Is Saying Something
Earlier this year, the earth tried to tell us something: it doesn’t like Corvettes. At least that’s the interpretation given by ABC news analyst Matthew Dowd, who suggests the universe is sending us a...
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Grow in Grace at the Table
The Lord’s Supper is an extraordinary meal. To be sure, it is simply an ordinary means of God’s grace to his church, but as eating and drinking go, it can be an unusually powerful experience.Along with...
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How I Almost Became a False Teacher
What does a false teacher in the church look like?Some of them are easy to spot. Health-and-wealth, prosperity preachers hardly require any effort at all. Those who ignore or sneeringly distort the...
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Sinner, Come Home
My heart was already full as John Piper began his message that would close the recent Together for the Gospel conference. I prayed that God would use his message to implant a passion within our hearts...
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Jesus Is Better Than Porn
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)These words from the apostle Paul are the heartbeat to Jimmy Needham’s song “Forgiven and Loved,” written in the...
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When It Seems Like God Did You Wrong
The story of Naomi in Ruth chapter one teaches us that how things look and how things feel are often not how they are.The last time Naomi had seen her hometown on the Judean hillside, the barley fields...
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Jesus’s Closest Companion
The Holy Spirit. There is “something wonderfully mysterious” about him, says pastor and theologian Sinclair Ferguson.He is the third person of the Trinity, the “self-effacing” member. He works ever in...
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That Sunday After Easter
Few of us remember those Sundays that come the week after Easter. By then the pastel finery is packed away in our closets. The lunch is not as great. The anticipation for corporate worship has dropped...
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What’s Most Important This Week
True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.John Calvin unlocked the door to wisdom with these words that launched the Institutes of the Christian Religion.Wisdom...
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Don’t Worry, Be Casting
First Peter 5:6–7 is bursting with hope and comfort. When I am tempted to worry, I often meditate on it. And when I come alongside people who are full of anxieties, I invariably share it with them.But...
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The Legacy I Want to Leave
For most of my pastoral life, I heralded the wonders of what I saw in the Bible.I tried to do this in such a way that people could see that the wonders really did come from the Bible, and not from me....
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What’s Wrong with Our Women
We don’t have a hard time thinking of men as depraved. After all, they are responsible for the vast majority of violent crime.90% of murders98% of sexual assaults93% of armed burglaries88% of simple...
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A Statement Stronger Than Silver
Today the NBA declared war on racism when commissioner Adam Silver banned franchise owner Donald Sterling from the league for life because of ten minutes of ignorant and offensive remarks recorded and...
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Update on Ian and Larissa
Three years ago, I was part of a small film crew that had the privilege of meeting Ian and Larissa Murphy at their home in Pennsylvania. Ian and Larissa were newly married, despite Ian’s traumatic...
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Wash in the Waters Again
Visible words. That was the Reformers’ term for baptism and the Lord’s Supper.In complement to the spoken words of gospel preaching, these twin rhythms of the gathered church are dramatizations of the...
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Living Out God’s Design for Marriage
Complementarity is a big label we use for God’s full design for marriage, and several excellent books help to explain what it all means.But another way to witness God’s design for marriage is to pull...
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Don’t Idolize Your Leaders
Barak was a hero of early Israel, serving during the pre-monarch period when Deborah judged the nation (Judges 4–5). His great military feat was the complete rout of the Canaanite general, Sisera, and...
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Show Your Kids the Glory
Psalm 145:4–7 is a beautiful Scriptural summary of our responsibility as parents.One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your...
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