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Showing posts with label
perspective
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Thursday
The Manipulation of Outrage
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Offense does not make you powerful. Offense to the point of outrage does not actually grant power. If you become outraged, if you are offend...
Wednesday
Which Gifts From God Don't Need God's Power?
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There are three lists of spiritual gifts in the New Testament. The list that gets most of the attention is the list of gifts from th...
Friday
It's Just Like Riding A Bicycle
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Do you remember when you learned how to ride a bicycle? Your world changed that day. Before you knew how to ride a bike, you were a pede...
Tuesday
Scripture Interpreting Scripture: Eternity
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You know how some things are better when they’re together? There’s more goodness when the right things come together. Cookies & milk are...
Thursday
Conditions On Inheriting My Promises
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I’ve been reading in the Book of Numbers recently. The story of the twelve spies. Today I was struck by the fact that all twelve of th...
Reflecting On Rules
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I was thinking about the rules. God didn’t create the covenant with all the rules. He wanted something much better (Exodus 19:6). But th...
Discipleship Before Conversion: A Testimony
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Back in the 20th century, I managed a business for a friend. This was my “tentmaking” job while we were planting a church. Barry was a...
What Makes You Married?
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Here’s an awkward question: what constitutes a marriage? The Bible has lots of wisdom about how to make your marriage good, and a fair bit...
More Thoughts on Job and His Sorry Friends
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The more time I spend with Job, the more I’m impressed, both with the man and with the lessons that his book teaches me. He started ou...
Literal or Metaphor
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I’ve found myself coming back over and over to Jesus’ conversation with Nick at night in John 3. I have realized something new about Nick’s ...
The Great Cloud of Witnesses: An Exercise
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Here’s an interesting spiritual exercise if you’re interested. Hebrews 12 begins with this image: “Therefore, since we are surrounded ...
Thoughts on Being Pruned
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Jesus said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that ...
Not Calling Out Sin
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I do not hold to the common Christian religious opinion that says if I see a sin somewhere, then I am somehow obligated to point it out or...
Don't Look At The Waves
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Matthew 14 tells this story. As soon as the meal was finished, [Jesus] insisted that the disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to ...
Saturday
Testimony: The Covid “Vaccine”
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A Little background: • The Covid 19 virus is a real virus. People are dying from it. • But the virus is being blown way the heck out of pr...
Friday
Sometimes we fire blanks.
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Sometimes we fire blanks. Oh, we don't mean to. We think we are firing powerful weapons of war, kicking ass and taking names. ...
Thursday
Watch Out for the Yeast!
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“Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast [the influence] of the Pharisees and that of Herod.” The religious spirit an...
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