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Authentic Humility
Humility is a sneered-at word. Who wants to be humble? It is equated with weakness, being a victim, and impotency. Pride, on the other hand, is envied, vaunted, and promoted. Why? Possibly because we’ve often misunderstood what humility is. This … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament, Parenting
Tagged Christ, church, courage, disciples of jesus, faith, generosity, Gospel, grace, hope, humility, judgment, love, meaning of life, mercy, Messiah, obedience, pattern, religion, sacrifice, salvation, sin, theology, wisdom
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Dawkins and Moral Compasses
Richard Dawkins has made quite the splash in recent times with books arguing against religion and belief in God. He is an evolutionary biologist, an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and the author most recently of The God … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, New Testament
Tagged atheist, Christianity, church, Dawkins, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, forgiveness, generosity, grace, heaven, hope, Judaism, judgment, justice, meaning of life, purpose, religion, theology
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Tell Me About the Christ, Part 2
Last week we began a brief study of the Christ with a look at what the Scripture says about Him before He came into this world as Jesus of Nazareth. The world, including even the religious world, has some pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, Christology, crucifixion, doctrines, emptied himself, enfleshment, faith, fullness of deity, fully divine, grief, incarnation, Jesus, Lamb, meaning of life, Messiah, mission, prophecy, religion, resurrection, salvation, Son of God, suffering, teachings, the Word, theology, virgin birth
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Tell Me About the Christ, Part 1
What do you know about the Christ? It’s one of those things that we sort of take for granted, but we’re living in a world unlike what we’re used to that is among other things challenging even the basics of … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, Christology, creator, deity, divinity, equality with God, faith, Gospel, Jesus, meaning of life, Messiah, pre existent, prophecy, Son of God, sustaining, the Lamb, the Word, theology
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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
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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Continually…Devoted…Themselves
There are a lot of things that could be (and are) said about how to grow spiritually. This is because 1) it is not a simple task to turn back the desires, passions, and “wisdom” of the flesh; and 2) … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged constancy, devotion, faithfulness, obedience, perseverance, persistance, personal growth, religion, self, self starting, sin, spiritual growth, spirituality, theology
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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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About Easter
If you’re not a regular church-goer, or just not an especially religious person, you might wonder what all the fuss is surrounding Easter. And even if you do come to church regularly you might sometimes wonder the same thing, even … Continue reading →