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12 mins read|10/27/16I often dance around the idea of denominations. I've been Pentecostal and I guess Evangelical.
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14 mins read|10/26/16Have you ever really thought about how crazy your salvation is? You may have never thought of it in those terms, but truly, your redemption and rescue from eternal damnation is a jarring truth, one that should spawn tears of joy and shouts of praise.
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17 mins read|10/25/16In our time Christ has not left us bereft of unbroken signs of His promised return.
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12 mins read|10/11/16Christians are Christians not because of anything that they have done but because of everything Christ has done for them.
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8 mins read|10/07/16Read your life like a Hebrew, from the end to the beginning, and you will see that the last is first. The dead are alive, the cursed are blessed, the humble are exalted.
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11 mins read|10/06/16We who fall within the Protestant camp of Christianity have longstanding issues with ritual. I get that. Ritual is often abused. Idolatrized. It can easily devolve into a hollow act of religious farce.
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11 mins read|09/29/16We need pastors who carry that same concealed weapon in their mouths, who are outfitted with the same word the angels have: the word steeped in divine blood, shed for you. That is all we need, for the word does it all.
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11 mins read|09/27/16You became, for a time, ritually unclean. Not sinful. Not immoral. To be unclean meant you bore in your own body the effects of a creation in bondage to decay.
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11 mins read|09/23/16All our little laws reveal that we are, by nature, trying to justify ourselves before others, and before God, based on what we do and who we are.
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12 mins read|09/23/16Fairy tales are but one chapter in the book we call storytelling. We may prefer reading other kinds of stories (mystery, science fiction, and so on).
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7 mins read|09/22/16Imagine if Zacchaeus posted on Jerusalem's Facebook a selfie with Jesus. The top dog among the tax-gougers with Christ at his dinner table. Oh, the outrage! The puritanical zealots would have been tweeting and blogging about it for months.
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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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