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Looking for a Silver Lining
A couple of weeks ago I came to the church office to find that we’d been burglarized. It was mostly computers that were stolen; thankfully, the thieves left us our external hard drives. Nevertheless, the following week or so has … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, faith, faithfulness, hope, love, money, obedience, religion, theology, wisdom
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Standing for 1st Century Christianity in the 21st Century — #3
We may complain a lot about trying to live a 1st century Christian life in the 21st century—there are so many new temptations that we have to contend with, so many cultural differences, so many challenges that we believe the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged ancient paganism, Christ, church, courage, current-events, evangelism, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, fear, Gospel, grace, idols, judgment, justice, love, obedience, pattern, persecution, religion, sacrifice, salvation, suffering, wisdom, worship
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Standing for 1st Century Christianity in the 21st Century
American culture (and most of western culture) is one that prides itself on being advanced, thoroughly modern, progressive, and sophisticated. If we’re not changing, innovating, and tweaking things, we are stagnant, old-fashioned, or losing ground. We hold in contempt or … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical patterns, Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, grace, judgment, love, obedience, persecution, religion, religious change, salvation, standing firm, standing strong, theology, worship
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The Marriage Covenant
I’ve heard people joke about it before, but never really heard anyone speak about it seriously. Yet, there it was on the radio being seriously discussed like it was a desirable, workable possibility—contractual time limits for marriage, an end point … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament, Old Testament
Tagged adultery, changes, covenant, divorce, exclusivity, excuses, family, family adoption, handshake agreement, life-long, love, marriage, marriage vows, meaning of life, narcissism, obedience, paper contract, personal growth, pride, religion, self-indulgence, sex, sin, wisdom
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Fear of the Lord
Many of our contemporary world might congratulate themselves because they don’t fear the Lord. Thinking themselves quite “evolved” and grown-up enough to either no longer need fear as a motivation for doing the right thing or (much worse) thinking that … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, New Testament
Tagged awe, creator, discipleship, disrespect, father, fear, friend, heaven, Hell, holiness, holy, judgement, love, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, respect, taking God seriously, terror, wisdom
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The Suffering Servant
This being Easter, much is said about the cross of Christ and His resurrection. Most of what is said is truly moving and thought provoking, but none of them top what was said about the cross and resurrection of Jesus … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, cross, Easter, exaltation, love, Messiah, resurrection, salvation, savior, suffering
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It’s not just what you do…
Imagine an anniversary, in which a husband walks through the door with flowers, candy, and a card and tosses them casually on the couch where his wife is sitting and says, “Happy anniversary,” in a monotone. He does sort of … Continue reading
The Fundamentals of Church Growth
The church of the first century exploded with growth — numerical and spiritual. Should we not be interested in a growing church, too? Not just for the sake of a larger bunch of people meeting on Sunday (like the membership … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged brotherhood, Christ, church, courage, enthusiasm, evangelism, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, fundamental things, Gospel, leadership, love, mustard seed, obedience, pattern, religion, salvation, theology, understanding, urgency of the Gospel, zeal
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Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac
Genesis 22 tells the riveting story of Abraham’s offering of Isaac. Isaac was the long awaited son of Abraham and Sarah. He had been promised when Abraham (“father of a multitude” — in honor of the promise) was still called … Continue reading
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Tagged Christ, church, courage, faith, faithfulness, fathers, fear, fools, hope, love, obedience, promises, prophecy, resurrection, sacrifice, worship
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The Two Sides of Kindness
Kindness is not a topic that you are likely read too many posts about. It seems just sort of—well, bland. “Yeah, yeah, practice random acts of kindness, blah, blah, blah.” But for Christians it is a rather important virtue to … Continue reading →