1. Make Sure You're Right With God!

    book
    05/12/16
    10 mins
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    By Dominick Santore
    To the Pastors and Preachers whose only word for me and others seem to be, "make sure you’re right with God!"
    Make Sure You're Right With God!

  2. The Optimist Must Die

    book
    03/07/16
    9 mins
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    By Bonnie Petroschuk
    To whatever extent we follow God’s perfect commands we will benefit from following them.
    The Optimist Must Die

  3. Most Religions Do Lead to the Same God

    book
    12/30/15
    14 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    The biblical witness is clear: all the so-called gods and lords and idols who are the object of people’s devotion, to whom they offer their sacrifices, to whom they pray, whom they call God and Lord, are sadly nothing but a front for the father of lies.
    Most Religions Do Lead to the Same God

  4. The Answering Voice

    book
    11/30/15
    8 mins
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    By Bonnie Petroschuk
    Have you ever read scripture and been caught by a crippling wave of guilt, shame and fear? Have you sat with your Bible open in front of you and thought, “Well, if this is the case, I might as well pack it in right now, because there’s no hope for me!”
    The Answering Voice

  5. The Way Things Should Be

    book
    11/12/15
    13 mins
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    By Bonnie Petroschuk
    I love stories with happy endings! My husband makes fun of me, but he has been known to graciously sit through a variety of schmaltzy chick flicks because he knows how I feel.
    The Way Things Should Be

  6. When the Pulpit Apes the World

    book
    06/30/15
    8 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    The more law-centered a church becomes, the more it and the world become kissing cousins.
    When the Pulpit Apes the World

  7. Called and Ordained Sheriff of the Word

    book
    04/28/15
    13 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    What is most amazing to me is not that Jesus welcomed public transgressors into his company. What astounds me is that they came to him with the full expectation of not being turned away.
    Called and Ordained Sheriff of the Word

  8. The Green-Eyed Monster: Putting Jealousy in its Place

    book
    09/17/14
    10 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    It’ll eat you alive, won’t it? We begin to think we’re victims, as if the whole world is conspiring against us to deprive us of what we deserve.
    The Green-Eyed Monster: Putting Jealousy in its Place

  9. I'll Teach You the Whole Law While Standing on One Foot

    book
    06/03/14
    12 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    We have violated not that of which we are ignorant, but that of which we are fully aware. If you want proof, simply look at how well we attempt to cover up our evil deeds.
    I'll Teach You the Whole Law While Standing on One Foot

  10. What's So Wrong with a Golden Calf? What Happens When We Make Our Own Ways to God

    book
    05/12/14
    7 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    So the law was shattered, our icon was becoming urine and dung inside our guts, and lots of bloody corpses littered our camp. All this because we decided that it was okay for us to choose how we approach God.
    What's So Wrong with a Golden Calf? What Happens When We Make Our Own Ways to God

  11. Tripping Helen Keller

    book
    02/19/14
    11 mins
    read
    By Chad Bird
    Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?
    Tripping Helen Keller

  12. “Still in the Loins of His Father”: Who Were You Before You Were Conceived?

    book
    01/23/13
    10 mins
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    By Chad Bird
    If I am so bound up in the history of the first man, all the way back at the dawn of creation, how can I not also be bound up in the more recent history of my family?
    “Still in the Loins of His Father”: Who Were You Before You Were Conceived?
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