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Why We Sin…and the Truth That Sets Us Free
We sin for the same reason that Eve sinned – we believe that God’s way is NOT the way of joy and happiness. In short, we are tempted by a lie, the same lie the enemy told Eve: “God does not have your best in mind.” This is what the Serpent insinuated to Eve in the Garden: “God knows that… Continue reading
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A Great Secret of Prayer…
Here is John Calvin from his Institutes of the Christian Religion expressing a great truth about prayer: “If we would pray fruitfully, we ought therefore to grasp with both hands this assurance of obtaining what we ask, which the Lord enjoins with his own voice, and all the saints teach by their example. For only that… Continue reading
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A Sign That Your Money, or Anything Else, is an Idol
We know that idols still exist today, but spotting them in western culture is trickier than it was 3,000 years ago when they sat on altars in the center of a family home. An idol is anything that we look to for the security and significance that we should only find in God. And if… Continue reading
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A Test For Success: Do You Have This Trait?
Just finished Charles Duhigg’s new book, Smarter Faster Better, subtitled The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Duhigg is a Pulitzer prize winning reporter for the New York Times, and not surprisingly is a great (non-fiction) storyteller. In his book he takes us from the cockpit of a crashing airliner to a white-knuckle… Continue reading
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Death…Swallowed Up By Life
by Guest blogger…Josh Knowlton: “…so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life…” 2 Cor. 5:4 The very definition of what it means to be mortal is that you have an end. Every mortal thing dies. Vanishes. Is swallowed by…death. For isn’t that what it is to be mortal? That one day, having… Continue reading
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The Field, the Barn, and the New Farmhand
It was the summer of 1985, and I was at a four week Navigator summer camp experience at a beautiful place called Camp Forest Springs. I had just heard a message by the state director of the Navigators, a man named Bill Tell. Bill said that while Jesus calls us to labor with Him in… Continue reading
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Why Do We Pray, Saying, “Who Art in Heaven”?
There is one part of the Lord’s Prayer that I never really understood. Not that I fully understand every part of what is the most glorious blueprint for prayer, mind you, but I never quite followed why Jesus wanted his disciples to pray, “…Who art in heaven.” “Our Father…” I get the importance of that. As J.I. Packer once… Continue reading
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Ten Books I’m Reading (or Recently Read)
We’re redoing our church library and the pastoral staff was asked to compile a list of books we’re reading to make a nice section of recommendations for the church. Here’s what I came up with… Knowing God by J.I. Packer I read this for a Sunday school class back in my college days and recently started… Continue reading
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Abdul My Brother (or Super Tuesday thoughts on Immigration)…by Guest Blogger Josh Knowlton
My son penned these thoughts a few weeks back, and I thought they might add some perceptive input to voting choices on Super Tuesday. Wise words to consider if you are casting your vote today… A few months ago, my tutoring partner and I walked in to the apartment complex of Abdul and Mieh for the… Continue reading
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