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The Part I Played in My Salvation
I have this high school memory: it was likely junior year, maybe a late morning in the fall – band class, and I was walking outside to the football field with some other marching band members. I was pontificating about Jesus – foolishness about how maybe he did exist and maybe he didn’t. Like I knew… Continue reading
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Can You See Chariots of Fire? If Not, Pray This Prayer…
You’ve heard the phrase “more than meets the eye”? It’s when there is more to something than you first see. So, when you buy a house, you don’t want to sign the papers and then find out that there was “more than meets the eye” under the floorboards. Or, on the positive side, sometimes people… Continue reading
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We Need the Cross Everyday
Here is one of my heroes, D. Martyn Lloyd Jones, writing wisely in his book, aptly titled The Cross, about one of the great verses in Scripture… “But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I… Continue reading
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A Common Way People Miss Heaven
Most of us understand the investment idea of hedging your bets. It’s the old cliché about eggs and baskets. You don’t put all your money in one place. Financial gurus call this “diversification”. You diversify so that if one of your companies or stocks or mutual funds goes belly-up, you don’t lose it all. The… Continue reading
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How to be Known by God
Many ask the question, “Do you know God?” It’s a good question, and a biblical one, but there is another way to consider our relationship with the Lord. It is to ask the question, “Does God know you?” This question is just as important as the first. Paul put it this way… But now that you… Continue reading
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A God of the Law…or a God of Grace?
I have mostly happy memories of church life growing up. From age 7 – 17, I attended the Antioch United Methodist Church in our hometown of Antioch, Illinois. To be sure, church services were boring – that’s not a happy memory particularly, but the people were nice. There was friendly Bob Olson, and elderly Betty… Continue reading
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The Trouble When CHRISTIANS Say There Are Many Ways to God
Most non-Christians consider it the height of arrogance when Christians claim that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Granted, on the surface I suppose it does seem awfully exclusive and even uncharitable to say that Jesus is the way and the only way to God. However, when people who consider themselves Christians affirm and accept other religions, I have a heart to… Continue reading
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Examine Yourself to See if You are in the Faith
The question today is important: Are you a Christian? Paul instructed the church at Corinth to… Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV) This is… Continue reading
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The Most Important Thing For You to Do…Right Now
What could be more important than taking a test to see if you are in the faith, to see if you are going to heaven? It is how Paul closes his final letter to the Corinthian church… Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this… Continue reading
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