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11 mins read|07/15/16Dear church, do not get sidetracked. This is about far more than terrorism, racism, gun ownership, and the like. This is about the evil of the human heart.
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6 mins read|04/19/16Burdened within and without, we cross the threshold into church. We don't leave behind our earthiness, our tragedies, our white-knuckled grip on the last vestige of dignity in our sad lives.
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9 mins read|03/22/16The first person who attempted to stop people from talking about Jesus was not a tyrant, a secular government, or a bully religious mob.
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16 mins read|03/03/16Your sins do not exist because He who called heaven and earth into existence, has called your sins out of existence. He who made everything from nothing unmakes your sins into nothing.
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10 mins read|02/21/16We hang on to our sins not despite the fact that they hurt, but precisely because they do hurt. We need to hurt, to fret over them, to cry over them, to make amends over them, because by doing so, we will grease the wheels of God’s forgiveness.
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14 mins read|01/02/16What is it about David’s life, and this psalm, that make this so fitting a place to utter this dire pronouncement of humanity’s corruption?
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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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11 mins read|11/21/15It doesn’t matter how good you seem to be, you’ll always be able to find someone who seems better than you. We’re addicted to comparing, measuring, quantifying, and judging.
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8 mins read|11/18/15We are a sinning church with a preaching problem.
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14 mins read|11/17/15What makes this story remarkable is that this man, along with others hanged that day, was among the most hated men in human history. He was guilty of atrocities so horrific only words forged in hell could adequately describe them.
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10 mins read|11/02/15We are fond of attaching our own résumés to our spoken or unspoken prayers. “I thank you, Lord, that I am not like other men, such as that lying, pathetic, husband named Abraham.”
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13 mins read|09/25/15Jesus said it would have been better for this man not to have been born. Shocking words, sad words. But they are not the saddest words in Scripture.
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