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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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What if the Apostle Paul Had Gotten Proud?
It would have been bad, that’s what. Proud people are pretty unusable by God, and so Paul would have been put on the shelf. And maybe we would have missed half of the New Testament, you know the part that Paul wrote (Just imagine the Bible without Romans). And maybe the gospel wouldn’t have gone Continue reading
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Would you want to live the Christian life if there was no resurrection?
John Piper quotes a story about a monk who was asked a form of the question, “Would you want to live the Christian life even if it weren’t true, that is, if there were no resurrection?” What would you say? Of course, the truth is that there are benefits to living a Christ centered life. Continue reading
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The Weapons of Our Warfare
I’m not much of a fighter, but I did try. As a cadet at West Point, I reluctantly learned to use the pugil stick (Sorry, the image to the left will have to do – no pictures of my fighting exploits remain). Pugil sticks are those giant Q-tip like “weapons” that you have perhaps seen Continue reading
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Give And It Will Be Given Unto You
If you give money to the Lord, do you get money back from Him? I think there is biblical evidence for the idea, but that said, giving is certainly not God’s plan for his children to “get rich”. Here’s a better way to put it: giving financially is the way to have enough so that you can continue to give to Continue reading
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When You Think You’re Something Great
I have a friend who recently needed to talk to a person in charge of a particular organization. What he related about his conversation was interesting. He had the sense that she couldn’t be bothered in dealing with him. She was of the impression that she was someone of great importance who really shouldn’t have to deal with a Continue reading
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