Getting Over Your Moral Superiority
By Daniel Emery Price
03/26/26
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Getting Over Your Moral Superiority

The Pharisee valued fasting and giving tithes, but could not find value in his fellow sinner.
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Magnus Persson
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The Original Sin of Preaching: The Constant Craving for a Useful God in Pulpit and Pew

God is not a tool in our hands. He does not exist to serve our goals, our metrics, or our platforms.
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Even Chuck Norris Needed a Savior

The gospel isn’t for the strong but people who know they aren’t.

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This is an excerpt from the introduction of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted written by Gretchen Ronnevik (1517 Publishing, 2021), 122-125. Now available for preorder.
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It’s All Part of the Plan

God always keeps his promises even if/when we don’t. God is always faithful even if/when we aren’t.
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Ken Sundet Jones
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Luther, Jesus’ Body, and a Troubled Conscience

Luther saw that God demands not that we become perfectly righteous like God but that we simply receive the gift of righteousness; a gift that actually makes us worthy.
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Livingstone's Failure and Christ's Success

Evangelism is hard work requiring lots of patience. Churches and mission boards are often too impatient and want to see numerical growth explode overnight.
Daniel Emery Price
Daniel Emery Price
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Alive Through Absolution

Absolution is the word God speaks to cause his sin-dead creation to live.
Donavon Riley
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God Adds to The Number of Our Days

God leads us to the refuge that’s more secure and safe than any man-made thing, more than anything we own, more than anything that owns us.
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Just One Stone

Those called out for their sins, who find themselves knee deep in their transgressions, always need grace.
Kelsi Klembara
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Now, if there were another way to heaven, doubtless, he would have made it known to us.
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Ken Sundet Jones
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Gretchen Ronnevik
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An Excerpt from Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted

This is an excerpt from the introduction of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted written by Gretchen Ronnevik (1517 Publishing, 2021). Now available for preorder.
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