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How to Find Strength in the Strength of God
How do you do a task in the strength of another? How do you exert your will to do something in such a way that you are relying on the will of another to make it happen?Here are some passages from the...
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Hey, Jealousy
Christians always find ways to tidy up difficult and rebellious emotions. Anger has received a lot of attention lately. “Righteous anger and selfish anger,” we say. “That’s the important difference.”...
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The Cross: God’s Altar
Every believer has some theology of the atonement.Faith, after all, is trust in a crucified Savior, and without some understanding, such faith is impossible. Faith knows from the beginning who died on...
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Education Is a Privilege, Not a Burden
If only we could have college without the homework. The real problem with school, you see, is all the classes — the lectures, the assignments, the papers, and the exams. The whole experience has so...
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Love That Will Complete You
He who began a good work in you — saving you and beginning to make you more like Jesus — he will complete that work.If you are in Christ and have known this promise, you’ve known it is precious. “I am...
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To Name the World
We don’t think about the mysterious power of speech enough. But words matter. The world was established by the word of the living God, by the God who is himself the Word (Genesis 1:3; Psalm 33:6–9;...
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The Antidepressant of Wonder
Living in this world tends to make us feel thin. We feel, with Bilbo Baggins, “like butter scraped over too much bread.” Another beheading, another disease epidemic, another leader’s adultery exposed,...
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God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed
To escape our bondage to sin, we must come alive to the glory of God in Christ. He’s our only hope.On this theme, theologian Jonathan Edwards was a master. He discovered God’s glory and beauty all over...
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Be There to Respond
The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying (singing) the words of the Psalms with all it’s strength.– Dietrich BonhoefferI love coffee.I love strong...
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Baseball in September
There is something wonderfully Christian about September, especially, baseball in September.It starts as something in the air. The heat dies down, the wind picks up, the leaves start to fall. One...
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New Every Morning, New Every Moment
So many of us love these words written by Jeremiah, the lamenting prophet, which have sustained us in dark days:The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are...
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How to Decide About Your Next Job
In 1997 I put a list of Bible texts together to help folks think through what job to pursue. Below I have taken that list and added comments to flesh out more specifically what I had in mind.My prayer...
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Can We Be Worthy of God’s Grace?
It is a question for our times: What are those texts of Scripture most minimized?That is to say, within our part of evangelicalism, what are the biblical passages that we’d rather ignore? The ones we...
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Is Secular the New Satanic?
Uncle Screwtape is not going to be happy. Things were going so well until a recent miscue under the watch of an underling. The oversight now threatens to blow the Adversary’s cover in a growing number...
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The Cure for Our Envy
A friend sent a text to share with me about an amazing restaurant she went to. She described the wonderful meal she enjoyed and included a photo. I began to text back, “I’m so jealous!” but paused,...
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When Your Campus Ministry Is “Derecognized”
University culture, as the cutting edge of the spirit of the age, doesn’t make sense. No “marketplace of ideas” that precludes the authority of its Creator is ever going to make sense, and we certainly...
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Aim Higher Than 4.0
What keeps you going to class? What gets you up early to study for the exam? What keeps you up late working on that paper?For most students, the answer is grades. Grades are the currency of college...
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Timing Isn’t Everything
We focus a great deal of attention on the clock and the calendar, from the time our alarm clocks go off — When is the report due? When are we meeting the Smiths for dinner?We are easily frustrated by...
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How God Cares for Those Who Don’t
Apathy is commonly thought to be a specific non-emotion: “I don’t care.” The apathetic carries an air of smug, Gregory-House-ness. Or, just sitting in a beanbag. Lots of Xbox. Sleeping until 10am....
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Look and Live
The reason it feels like just another Sunday morning is because the stakes aren’t high enough.It wasn’t just another day for the people of Israel in Numbers 21. Imagine: you’re there in the desert and...
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