1. Losing Your Life: What Aretha Franklin's Depiction in Respect Reveals about the Gospel

    book
    11/18/21
    10 mins
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    By Ryan Cosgrove
    It is in your lows where Christ has hidden his highest high, eternal life itself.
    Losing Your Life: What Aretha Franklin's Depiction in Respect Reveals about the Gospel

  2. Navigating Life Under Christ's Sufficiency: A Review of The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School

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    10/25/21
    16 mins
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    By Valerie Thur
    While the insights in each chapter are uniquely personal to the individual writers, the overarching theme is one of the sufficiency of Christ.
    Navigating Life Under Christ's Sufficiency: A Review of The Jesus I Wish I Knew in High School

  3. Redefining True Love: A Review of Jared Wilson's Love Me Anyway

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    10/21/21
    11 mins
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    By Kelsi Klembara
    Wilson reminds his reader over and over again that, in his love, God accepts sinners as they are so that we may be delivered from the self-acceptance, self-worship, and self-justification of our selfish definitions of love.
    Redefining True Love: A Review of Jared Wilson's Love Me Anyway

  4. A Q&A for the Second Edition of "The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?

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    08/31/21
    19 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    The Second Edition of “The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?” by Steven Hein is now available from 1517 Publishing.
    A Q&A for the Second Edition of

  5. Did I Blow My Chance with God?

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    08/27/21
    10 mins
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    By Grant Klembara
    For all mankind, the answer is terrifically simple and remains the same: God wants to turn us towards the cross and then turn us back to our neighbors.
    Did I Blow My Chance with God?

  6. The Two-Faced God

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    08/25/21
    14 mins
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    By Steven A. Hein
    Although God is always closer to us than the nose on our face, he has not taken the wraps off and given any sinful and mortal human being a full-measure, face-to-face meeting.
    The Two-Faced God

  7. Answering the Universal Inquiry of Humanity

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    06/03/21
    11 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    Everyone is living as a naked sufferer who’s been duped into believing that the nakedness of suffering has to be covered up.
    Answering the Universal Inquiry of Humanity

  8. Being Free

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    05/12/21
    10 mins
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    By Brad Soenksen
    In Christ, we live beneath an open heaven having the definitive proof in the cross of Christ that God is outrageously for us, not against us.
    Being Free

  9. Salvation in the Silence of God

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    03/31/21
    10 mins
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    By Bror Erickson
    Good Friday encompasses the silence of God, even as it focuses on our salvation in the cross of Christ.
    Salvation in the Silence of God

  10. Dying to the Law to Live to God

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    02/27/21
    11 mins
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    By Kevin Hale
    When we stop looking to Christ in faith, we are walking in sin. Anything (including our supposed law-keeping) that does not proceed from faith is sin.
    Dying to the Law to Live to God

  11. What to do When Life Goes to Pieces

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    02/22/21
    19 mins
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    By Bradley Gray
    The Bible is a book for the desperate. That is its target audience. Recognizing our desperation readies us to hear the consolation that only God’s Word can offer.
    What to do When Life Goes to Pieces

  12. Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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    01/28/21
    10 mins
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    By Tyler Cronkright
    And because Jesus on the cross was sin in its entirety, God cannot look at him. He turns his face away, causing Jesus to cry out in utmost agony, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
    Why Have You Forsaken Me?
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