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9 mins read|09/20/16We see someone driving a fancy car, owning a big home, having healthy children and an attractive spouse. Instantly, almost without a second's thought, we assume they are successful. Life is good for them.
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11 mins read|09/19/16This old preacher, Zechariah, didn't abolish holiness. He spread it out. He pushed it beyond the boundaries of the temple.
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11 mins read|09/15/16We fly away to the judgment seat of God. There we shall appear before the One who knows all, before whom nothing is hidden. Do you really think you can conceal anything from Him?
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6 mins read|08/23/16The flower of youth, as lovely as it is, cannot withstand the hot winds of time. There is a beauty, however, that remains.
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13 mins read|08/20/16To forget ourselves is to remember another, that is, to act in such a way that benefits them. That’s the problem: we don’t.
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12 mins read|08/16/16Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
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10 mins read|08/14/16We want people to notice us, know us, like us, or even hate us. Just please don’t ignore us. Social media is the ego’s dream come true.
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11 mins read|08/12/16We want to know how God rules this world, how he is present in all things, how he exerts his control over the course of world events. We want to know why some get cancer and some don’t, why terrible things happen to the best of people, why volcanoes erupt and hurricanes strike and fires consume.
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13 mins read|08/03/16We shrink away from God’s godness and almightiness, and so shrink down our prayers. Perhaps it is a lack of faith. We don’t trust God to give what He himself has promised to give.
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9 mins read|07/22/16He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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12 mins read|07/19/16The Christian faith makes a bold claim: We are the world's problem, but we are not the world's solution.
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9 mins read|06/30/16Why was Jesus crucified? Not to save victims, but to save sinners.
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