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perspective
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Thursday
Target Fixation
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I’m pretty careful about where my attention goes, and about how I handle my words. God’s instructions are pretty clear, and I’ve learned...
Tuesday
Audacious Prayer
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Conversation, even online conversation, is a useful tool for discovering what’s in the heart, discovering what you’ve begun to believe tha...
Thursday
How Jesus & the Apostles used "Repent"
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I really love listening to the Bible. I’ve been listening through the gospels recently. And wouldn’t you know it? It got me thinking a...
Are We Mere Men?
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I’ve been struck by how much vitriol and, well, hatred that there is toward certain congressional leaders among Christians. I’m struck by ...
Jigsaw Revelation: the Love of God
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Have you ever put a jigsaw puzzle together? Sometimes you find two or three pieces that fit together, and suddenly that part of the pi...
Tuesday
What Is The Vengeance Of God?
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You know, I think we’ve misunderstood the idea of God’s vengeance. For example, in Isaiah 61 , God defines his idea of what vengeance ...
Thursday
Won't I Be Bored in Heaven?
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Recently, someone asked an interesting question. They asked if we wouldn’t be bored in Heaven? I used to be concerned about that...
Friday
The Deception of the Finished Lesson
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There’s a deception that I’ve come to … well, I don’t know that I actually “hate” it, but I sure don’t love it. It’s a deception, an illus...
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Thursday
Baby, That's Not Love
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I have a friend, a young man, who was beaten as a child. I don't mean spanked. I mean beaten. When he made a mistake, and what you...
Decently and In Order
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“On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blas...
Sunday
Whose Holiday Is It Anyway?
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Whose Holiday Is It Anyway? Point One: Plunder. When you conquer an enemy, the enemy’s property becomes your property. Plunder has...
Thursday
Managing Natural Disasters
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I confess, I have some obstacles with how we pray about those events we refer to as natural disasters. First let me clarify: it's clea...
New Respect for the Word of God
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I used to proudly and unquestioningly hold to a particular standard of belief that I now find myself questioning. Some will likely call ...
The Tidy Deception
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There’s a deception that I’ve come to … well, I don’t know that I actually “hate” it, but I sure don’t love it. It’s a deception, an i...
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Mixing Promises with Faith
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I have been meditating, unexpectedly, on Hebrews chapter 4 for a while, the second verse in particular. I was listening to it in The Messa...
The Cutting of the Lord
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Jesus promised us that our growth would be rewarded with pruning. We think, “Pruning? That’s cutting! That’s taking things away! That can’...
What Covenant?
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Abraham believed God & God made a covenant with him. (Gen. 15:6 & 18) That covenant was based on the fact that Abe believed God. No...
Angels Support the Values of the Kingdom
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It was one of those days where it seemed there were more crazy people on the roads than usual: cars pulling out right in front of me, ...
The Bible or Relationship?
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I love the Bible. I don't mean that metaphorically, this is literal: I love that book, I love those stories. Even more, I love the pre...
Sent
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We Are Sent. There’s a big difference between us going out on our own and spreading the Good News of the Kingdom because we like it, and ...
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