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6 mins read|11/27/15There has only been one baptism in the history of the world: the baptism of Jesus. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
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6 mins read|11/13/15The water and blood that streamed forth from Christ, streams us back into him as we are buoyed up by the waves of baptism, through the wound, and into the body of God incarnate.
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10 mins read|11/05/15Our Father does not bid us to turn inward, but outward, to the Son who is himself our unending Sabbath rest.
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11 mins read|09/10/15Ultimately, the lie we have believed is that God is like we are. He is not. Thank God that he is not. He is the Lord who reverses all our expectations.
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10 mins read|08/28/15In Christ, we become part of the group of eight on the ark. The eight does not increase to nine or ten but swells to contain us all. God recreates us in this saving flood of baptism. We enter the new creation in Christ.
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11 mins read|08/18/15In the rest of the Scriptures, Sodom and Gomorrah became emblematic of cities, nations, and indeed a world that steadfastly refuses to believe in the God of mercy and truth and justice, and instead follow their own hearts.
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10 mins read|02/04/15Paul's conversion is a death and resurrection story. And in reality, so is every conversion, whether it was an awe-inspiring experience like Paul's or not. Dead to sin and alive in Christ.
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14 mins read|01/22/15Scattered throughout all denominations are moms and dads whose greatest disappointment in life is that their children have seemingly abandoned the faith.
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14 mins read|01/07/15When the Holy Spirit finally gave me a fresh set of ears, I heard—really heard—what He’d been saying all along. Baptism really does save.
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4 mins read|11/08/14The pastor put a hand over my mouth, another between my shoulder blades, and backward I fell into the dark waters, buried beneath Noah's flood, the Red Sea, Jordan's stream, all the way down into a borrowed tomb outside Jerusalem where a crucified man lay waiting for me.
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7 mins read|10/15/14Your primary purpose in life is having something done to you. God created you in order that He might have someone to give to, to bless, to love, to nurture, to save, to give Himself to.
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8 mins read|09/22/14Wouldn’t it be great if there were something that could de-shame us?
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