Christ-centered' Isn’t Good Enough
By John Bombaro
09/02/25
17mins

Christ-centered' Isn’t Good Enough

While ambiguous “Christ-centeredness” by its very nature fragments Christianity by way of its subjectivism, Christological commitments beget unity or, at least, move strongly in that direction.
The Word: God's Message to Us
Delwyn Campbell
Delwyn Campbell
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The Word: God's Message to Us

The Word seems like it is so little, like five barley loaves and two small fish, but it is all that God used to create the heavens and the earth.
Teach Us to Pray
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
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Teach Us to Pray

You’re permitted to call on “Our Father, who art in heaven” at all hours of the day and night with whatever you like.

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Bound to God, Free in the World: The Strange Freedom of the Christian Life

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How to Remember Your Baptism

When you remember your baptism, you're not recalling a ritual. You're standing under a current of divine action that has not ceased to flow since the moment those baptismal waters hit your skin.
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New Year, Same You

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Did God Really Say?

Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
Ryan Couch
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Be the Church - Law or Gospel?

We can interpret "be the Church" as either law or gospel.
Ryan Couch
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Legalism - The Elephant in the Room

There is no AA for legalists. At least not officially. But there ought to be, and it should be called your local church.
Ryan Couch
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My Favorite Book in the Bible

If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
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I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins

God gives us the power and authority to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to burdened sinners who entrust us with their pain, guilt, and defeat.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
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Friends in Low Places

You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
Ryan Couch
Ryan Couch
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Jesus is Bigger than Your Vote

You are free from allowing anyone to cast doubt on your salvation based upon your political preferences. And free from causing anyone else to question their faith due to what Christian convictions they may have to compromise to vote in one direction or the other.
Ryan Couch
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How's Your Walk With Jesus?

The quality of our walk with Jesus is not predicated on anything we do, for the only thing we bring to our salvation is the sin that makes it necessary.
Ryan Couch
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What Doesn't Kill You Isn't the Law

What doesn’t kill you might actually be a cheapened law that leaves wiggle room and space in the door for your old man to stick his foot in and get in on the work of Christ.
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