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Where Satan Will Attack You Today
You wonder why it’s so hard to find some peace of mind? Well, peace is hard to come by when you live in a warzone. And like it or not you are in a war — a very serious one. This war is cosmic in its...
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Boomers’ Bodies — And Yours
All of the 10,000 people in America who turn 65 each day have wrinkles. Our skin is more flaccid. Our complexion is more mottled. Our equilibrium is more tenuous. And our hair is more scarce. The...
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What Is the Highest Good?
“God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.” Herman BavinckNearly every Christian has uttered, “God is good.” When we experience a job promotion at work, witness the physical healing in the life of a...
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Twelve Benefits of Team Leadership
Christian leadership is not for the lone wolf. The labor is too important when souls are in the balance, and all of us are simply too frail and shortsighted, with too much indwelling sin and too many...
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How God Embraces the Embarrassed
Whether it’s a laughable underwear-on-stage experience (laughable later), or a deeply unsettling loss of integrity, embarrassment is a besetting quality of human life. It lurks and stalks beneath the...
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Wonder Why You’re Here
You are.You are tempted to fill in a blank at the end of that sentence. You are ___. Most of what you might place in that blank are not worthy to be compared to the revealed glory that you are.How is...
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When God Himself Speaks to You
John Piper says that good news is so dense and so constant in Romans 8 — and so vastly superior to all earthly good news — that we scarcely feel the force of it until we take every verse of Romans 8...
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The Best Things About the Boring Parts of the Bible
Let’s admit it, there are certain parts of the Bible we skim because . . . well . . . because we think they’re boring. They’re repetitive, overly detailed, full of names and places we can’t pronounce....
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Get Alone Undistracted
Never Offline.These words on a recent Time Magazine cover are intended to unnerve us with the ominous future of a computer invasion. Technology is getting strapped around us and stuck on us, moving...
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Be Yourself in Prayer
Sometimes it seems as if many believers feel the need to alter who they are when they come to God in prayer, particularly when others are around. As if God will not hear them if they are themselves,...
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How Should Christians Think About Religious Violence?
Religious violence is a terrible thing. Chances are high that you’d agree, especially in the West, especially if you’re reading this. But recently, in a video that has made the rounds online, some...
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When God Feels Cruel
Let’s say you’re praying with a suffering friend who blurts out to God,“I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. You have turned cruel to me.”Would you wince?...
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Clarifying Romans 7:14–25 As “Christian Experience”
Not surprisingly, there was pushback to my argument at the Desiring God National Conference that Romans 7:14–25 refers to Paul’s — and thus to our — Christian experience. Adrian Warnock (following his...
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One Question God Always Answers
I remember when my oldest son first started asking questions about life and the world around him. It was amazing to watch him think through what he learned and make sense of it all. “Mommy, why are...
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Self-Control and the Power of Christ
It sounds so simple and straightforward, perhaps even commonplace.It’s not a flashy concept or an especially attractive idea. It doesn’t turn heads or grab headlines. It can be as seemingly small as...
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Young People Need a Yoda
You can’t be indifferent about your personal investment in the lives of people if you care at all about the proclamation of the gospel.There may not be anything more urgent for Christian leaders to...
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What’s in a Name?
The Scriptures are a gold mine of life and wisdom. But acquiring this gold requires labor and effort. We must look and look and look again until we see what’s there. We must pay attention to those...
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A Hope Greater Than Healing
Lots and lots of people in our churches are in serious, ongoing, life-threatening pain.I wrote before about how God does not just bring us through suffering, but he also works in our suffering. But,...
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The Secret of Aslan
You could see it in their eyes, as they sat there on the bed, silent and still. They were utterly focused, not sure what would happen next, on pins and needles for every detail.The brilliance of C.S....
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Seven Proofs That Joy Has Arrived in Christ
Jesus was almost euphoric.The most joy-filled outburst recorded in the life of Christ comes in Luke 10.Jesus sends out 72 of his followers to preach and heal, to serve sinners in word and deed. As they...
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