1. Law and Gospel and the Imagination

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    07/11/23
    12 mins
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    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    When properly distinguishing law and gospel in the Word of God, it is important to use the God-given gift and abilities of the imagination as your ears.
    Law and Gospel and the Imagination

  2. What Do These Stones Mean?

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    07/06/23
    20 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
    What Do These Stones Mean?

  3. One Word

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    06/22/23
    10 mins
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    By Michael Berg
    One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
    One Word

  4. A Departure to Celebrate

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    06/21/23
    6 mins
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    By Wade Johnston
    Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
    A Departure to Celebrate

  5. Opening the Dead Hands of Faith

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    06/20/23
    12 mins
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    By Donavon Riley
    It’s not our eloquence or persuasive rhetoric that changes hearts, but the Word of God that pierces through the hardened shells of unbelief and breathes life into the dead bones of sinners.
    Opening the Dead Hands of Faith

  6. Sin Will Have No Dominion

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    06/15/23
    10 mins
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    By Gerhard Forde
    We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
    Sin Will Have No Dominion

  7. The Word from Outside

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    06/06/23
    19 mins
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    By Amy Mantravadi
    What I desperately needed was not to preach to myself, but to listen to a preacher—not to take myself in hand, but to be taken in the hands of the Almighty.
    The Word from Outside

  8. God's Faithful Deliverance

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    06/02/23
    6 mins
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    By Katie Koplin
    Just like for Mordecai and Esther, our lives are also sustained by the hand of God in the ordinary, in events begging to be seen as the work of Christ in our lives.
    God's Faithful Deliverance

  9. Why Do You Expect So Little of God?

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    06/01/23
    11 mins
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    By Bruce Hillman
    When we forget that we live by promise, that's when the danger tends to creep in. Because failing to embrace promise means we usually fall back into notions of luck, or even worse--into works.
    Why Do You Expect So Little of God?

  10. A Near-Death Experience and a Nagging Question

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    05/24/23
    6 mins
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    By Jake Allstaedt
    Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
    A Near-Death Experience and a Nagging Question

  11. A Reason to Sing

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    05/19/23
    9 mins
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    By Jason Oakland
    Sing of Jesus’ Easter victory for you, and watch Satan flee with his worries and cares!
    A Reason to Sing

  12. More Than You Can Handle

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    05/17/23
    28 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    God wants his word of promise to be the only thing we bank on, the only thing we have confidence in.
    More Than You Can Handle
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