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Doctrines of Grace
Sinclair Ferguson says the key truth of the Bible is found in Jonah 2, verse 9, where from the belly of the fish, Jonah prays: “Salvation is of the Lord.” And it is, of course, and often even more than we imagine. Salvation is totally by grace. In contrast, many Christians tend to think that Continue reading
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Why It Is So Important to Know the Love of God
Imagine that someone you love deeply is involved in an automobile accident. For ease of illustration, imagine that you’re a parent and the person injured is your only son. After the accident, for the longest time, he is in a coma and the doctors are not sure that he is going to make it. You are naturally Continue reading
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Why More Rules Don’t Make You More Holy
In the early 1980’s, I attended a Bible seminar called Basic Youth Conflicts put on by a Bible teacher named Bill Gothard. Gothard was a Youth Pastor in the Chicago area for a number of years until he went into this traveling ministry of putting on these seminars. There were many good and useful things that Continue reading
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Pastoring a “Feel Good” Church
One of the things that I find fascinating in my role as a Pastor at Edgewood is to occasionally find out what people out there are saying about our church. The truth is that I really don’t know what people outside of Edgewood are thinking and saying, probably because I’m just naturally insulated. People outside of Continue reading
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The Missing Peace by Josh Knowlton
(Note from Roger:Today I have asked one of my favorite people in the world to be a guest blogger. He is my one and only son, Josh Knowlton. Josh is a sophomore at Wheaton College studying Anthropology. Aside from academics, Josh is a member of the Wheaton Men’s Glee Club and the acapella group, Thundertones. He’s Continue reading
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How to Get to Heaven…the Old Testament Way
God changed. The very thought should make us shudder. And you know why, right? Because if God changed then He either became better, or He became worse. Now, if He became better, then He wasn’t perfect yesterday, and tell me, just who or what exactly was answering your prayers last week? And if He changed Continue reading
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There is no Distinction
I knew a young man in my college days who was convinced that the way of salvation was not open to Him. He had sinned in some apparently major way (or perhaps only in his mind) – the truth is it really doesn’t matter – I don’t think he actually told me. Either way, he was despondent Continue reading
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Hypocrites Anonymous
What if Judgment Day was not about whether you kept the commandments of God, but instead, whether you kept your own commandments? You know, the commandments you not only tell others (like employees and kids) to keep, but the commandments which you judge others with: In his book, The Church at the End of the Continue reading
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The Great Key to Changing
During my seminary years, I had a friend named Mike who was a full-time firefighter and a fairly new Christian. Mike and I went to a weekly men’s prayer group on Friday mornings, and I remember one Friday morning Mike was lamenting how he would go on this two week canoe trip to Canada with Continue reading
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Karma?
The T.V. show “My Name is Earl” ran from 2005 – 2009. Its premise was stated by the title character in the opening sequence: “You know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something Continue reading
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