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Three Lessons on Loving One Another
The scene could not have been more inauspicious: a low-lit room, full stomachs, and the dirty feet of a dozen grown men. This is not where you’d expect to find one of the world’s greatest lessons in...
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The Redwoods and the Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
J.I. Packer says that the Puritans are the theological and devotional Redwoods of the western world (A Quest for Godliness, 11f). My own experience is that no one comes close to the skill they have in...
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Be Ready to Answer Your Kids’ Questions About the Bible
Kids are thinkers. They ask good and sometimes hard questions. My kids have asked me some of the hardest theological questions between ages 5 and 8. They’ve queried me on comparative religion, death,...
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What Are You Looking For?
What is the point of life?Few people are able to answer this question with unshakable confidence. Most of us, if we’re honest, would admit that the daily grind on this planet can be rather...
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Finding a Level Head in a Hectic World
We are in great need today of Christians with sober minds.As the swirling winds of religious pluralism and progressive “tolerance” meet with the gales of globalization, a parade of new gadgets, and the...
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The Epidemic of Male Body Hatred
“If I could look like that guy who played Thor, I would be happy.”It’s a common belief among men of our age. Put more honestly, “If I can’t appear confident, sexy, intimidating, competent, and...
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The Lethal Drug in Your Dream Job
Idolatry is a subtle and scary business.You simply don’t know all the lies lurking in your desires, ambitions, and decisions — even the good ones. In fact, Tim Keller says, “The greater the good, the...
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How God Impacts Our Money and Stuff
The love of money is more than dangerous — it’s spiritual suicide.The consistent warning of Scripture is that the people of God better watch their backs when it comes to the allure of financial gain...
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Marriage on the Edge of Eternity
How long do you think your marriage will last? Will you make it another five years? Ten? Fifty?I think we can all agree that it’s not going to last very long — not in light of eternity.Eternity changes...
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Jesus Doesn’t Fail: An Interview on Definite Atonement
It is, by far, the most contested of the Five Points. And confusion over the term makes it all the trickier.“Limited Atonement” is the middle letter in TULIP, but as author and pastor Douglas Wilson...
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Three Reasons to Attend Corporate Worship
“Why do we have to go to church again?”Children ask this question on a semi-regular basis. I know my three boys have given me many opportunities to answer it. As a worship pastor, I am embarrassed to...
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The Resurrection Demands Response
The resurrection of Jesus changes everything.If death had the last word at Golgotha, then we’re left to scratch our heads about what Jesus’s sacrifice really accomplishes. So what if his death does...
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Practical Helps for Bible Reading
Being changed and encouraged by God’s word is a supernatural event.When this encouragement happens, God himself is stirring your affections by his Spirit through an ancient volume of sixty-six books...
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Biblical Counseling for the Great Commission
This is a simple plea that those of you whom God is calling to be biblical counselors consider your counseling as a way of reaching the unreached peoples of the world with the life-transforming gospel...
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Have You Lost Your Love?
It was an unforgettable moment.For those of you who attended the Desiring God National Conference back in 2010, Francis Chan’s hour-long talk, “Think Hard, Stay Humble,” is likely still fixed in your...
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Ode to the Church
There she stands in splendor, secure on the arm of her Father, adorned in brilliant white for her husband. The music sounds and beckons their short passage down the aisle.Once she had been disgraced...
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God Is in the Grocery Aisle
I’m the grocery shopper in our family. I walk the aisles of choices and read the labels, searching the food, trying to discern facts from fiction.This regular responsibility comes with some regular...
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Sin Is Worse Than Hell
For some, the doctrine of everlasting punishment in hell feels like a divine overreaction. Take Clark Pinnock as an example: “How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and...
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Self-Promotion and Our Fear of Obscurity
Bono apologized last week for U2’s (and Apple’s) aggressive automatic insertion into our iTunes libraries with their latest album Songs of Innocence. Bono explained it as,Drop of megalomania, twitch of...
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Be Generous with Your Master’s Money
Jesus once told his disciples an odd parable where he used a dishonest manager as an example of how we should be shrewd with our money. What did he mean? Imagine his disciples Simon (the Zealot) and...
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