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13 mins read|09/07/20From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
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2 mins read|09/07/20Who is right in these crazy times? The only oppressed One who is not the oppressor: Jesus.
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11 mins read|09/03/20Character development? Change? Saying that it’s behind you? Yeah right. You’re just saying that because you want your nice polished image back. You haven’t changed. We know. We’ve got the receipts.
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8 mins read|08/26/20God doesn’t give us second chances. No one earns another shot at forgiveness. We cannot earn forgiveness, it’s too costly.
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5 mins read|08/11/20Jesus continues to breathe His gifts on His beloved. He continues to breathe absolution upon sinners like me and you, He continues to fill us with the Holy Spirit and all His comfort.
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14 mins read|08/07/20Sometimes I think I've gone through the whole forgiveness process, but forgiveness for me often feels like I'm weeding my garden. I forgive and another offense pops up.
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12 mins read|07/29/20He is not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters, even as we curse and yell at him for not pleasing us with our pettish wishes.
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9 mins read|07/28/20There is a repentance that is anti-repentance, for it clings tightly to the sin over which it sorrows, because in that sorrow is its consolation. In this warped spiritual scheme, our anguish is atonement; shame is our absolution; tears are our baptism. We feel better knowing how bad we feel about our wrongs. But there is a much better way.
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1 min|07/27/20The power of music: a natural expression of the children of God! Repent and believe the good news.
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10 mins read|07/24/20He is our gold. He is our pure garment. He is our healing. He is our sanity. He is our wholeness.
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16 mins read|07/16/20In the quiet of your own uptown, where your own sins bear down on you and create a troubled conscience before the world, before others, and before God, your Lord reaches across the chasm of brokenness to take your hand.
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9 mins read|07/15/20The good news of Jesus Christ guides us into godly worship, not self-worship.
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