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The Road to Greatness is the Road to Joy
My Grandmother Irene thought I was destined for greatness, the Presidency, to be exact. Now admittedly, she died when I was four, so she didn’t have much to work with when making such predictions of high accomplishment. But she loved me, and sometimes that’s all it takes to imagine great things for our progeny. Salome… Continue reading
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What Jesus Taught About Marriage
After 10 years of marriage and two children, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin (not pictured 🙂 ) announced in March of 2014 that they were divorcing, only they didn’t call it that; the phrase they used was “conscious uncoupling.” The (former) Hollywood power couple was guided by the husband and wife team of doctor and… Continue reading
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Why Doesn’t God Just Forgive Everyone?
Have you ever wondered why doesn’t God just wave a cosmic hand over the universe and forgive everyone? Well, Jesus tells a story in Matthew 18 that helps to answer this question that many have asked… The story begins with a King who wishes to settle accounts. If you have ever borrowed anything from the… Continue reading
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A Day to Remember
We’ve all thought how glorious it would have been to be a disciple, walking and talking with Jesus of Nazareth; but you’ve got to think, how confusing also. After all…Who is this man? (A question they undoubtedly asked more than once). Put yourself in their shoes: Jesus is being revealed as someone incredibly special over… Continue reading
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The Day Peter Did Good
Talk about moments of highs and lows – the disciple Peter had them both. In his lesser moments, sometimes he’s almost a comical figure, as in Matthew 17 where on the Mount of Transfiguration he starts babbling about setting up tents, and God the Father has to tell him to zip it. But there are… Continue reading
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Why Religious People Go to Hell
“The boy didn’t need to hear it. There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.” –Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1949/2001), 22. So I have this friend who hates legalists. I mean hates. And he has a saying… Continue reading
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Herod The Great People Pleaser
“What will my friends think?” This pressing question is constantly swirling in the head of one known as a people pleaser. The clothes they wear, who they sit with at lunch, the college they attend, the person they marry – in short, almost everything they do, every decision they make is calculated to please other… Continue reading
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The Field is the World
It’s pretty easy to get focused on those close to us when we think about reaching out to the lost. If your child doesn’t know Christ, or your mom or dad, or your spouse, it’s fairly easy to forget about what’s going anywhere else, and focus only on them. It’s also easy for us pastors… Continue reading
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Comfort for those who believe they have committed an unpardonable sin (Part 3)
We’ve been discussing the trouble Christians have with believing they have somehow done something beyond the grace of God. Part one is here and part 2 is here. Here is the second reason Christians need not worry… 2. The gospel. Over and over again, Scripture makes it clear that justification (God declaring us righteous) comes by… Continue reading
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Comfort for those who believe they have committed an unpardonable sin (Part 2)
“The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.” Good old Fanny Crosby – she knew what she was talking about when she wrote the above words back in 1872, in her famous hymn, “To God be the Glory.” And yet, so many Christians through the years have been determined to… Continue reading
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