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A Mother’s Sad, Sexual Advice to Her Teen Daughter
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I still was. A few months ago, I was thumbing through the February 9, 2015 issue of Time magazine, and I happened on the essay by Susanna Schrobsdorff, titled Be Brave, Be Safe, subtitled, Advice to my teen daughter on handling the inequities of campus life. (The web article that Continue reading
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Judge Others…So They Will Not Be Judged
One of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible is Matthew 7:1, where Jesus says, “Judge not, that you be not judged.” (ESV) Far too many people have taken that to mean that we should never confront brothers and sisters in their sin. But surely Jesus is thinking about final judgment, i.e. condemning others to Hell, Continue reading
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The “Self-Esteem” Problem…Solved
“…I do not even judge myself.” 1 Corinthians 4:3 (ESV) In his very short work, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness, Tim Keller offers a wonderful insight on the question of self-esteem from his study of 1 Corinthians chapter 4… “If someone has a problem with low self-esteem we, in our modern world, seem to have only Continue reading
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What Happened When Chuck Swindoll Left
Ever heard of Dale Burke? He wrote a book on leadership, but he may be even more famous for the person he followed in pastoral ministry. Dale is the pastor who in 1993 followed Chuck Swindoll as Senior Pastor at Fullerton Evangelical Free Church. Some readers may be unfamiliar with Chuck, but many will know that he is Continue reading
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Reading God’s Mind
Annie and I recently finished watching a season of a T.V. show called The Tomorrow People. It was kind of fun, but was apparently cancelled after its first season, which I guess wasn’t a great loss. Anyway, the tomorrow people had extraordinary powers like the ability to transport themselves from one place to another or Continue reading
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Is Baptism Necessary For Salvation?
It was probably 10 years ago that I got a call from another pastor in town (since moved away) inviting me to lunch. He and I had never really connected, so I gladly accepted. As we sat down at Culvers one early afternoon, he didn’t take too long to get to his point. He had Continue reading
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The Conversation That Never Happened
On resurrection morning, the three women who discovered an angel instead of Jesus’s body didn’t go away saying this… “They will all think we’re weird you know, if we tell them that we saw an angel.” Walking away from the tomb, Mary Magdalene confessed her concerns to Salome and Mary the mother of James. “Yeah, Continue reading
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Naked as a Jay-bird
When I get to heaven, I’ll have a long list of questions to get answers to, but one of them I’d like to ask directly to Mark, the author of the second gospel. The question will be, tell me the details about these two verses… And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen Continue reading
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