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Do You Have a Fire in Your Bones?
There are moments during worship at Edgewood when I just can’t wait to get up behind the pulpit and start preaching. It often happens when we’re all singing (and the worship through song is great at our church), and true confessions, I just can’t wait for it to be over because I’ve got something that Continue reading
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Kneeling on Hot Coals for Jesus?
For some reason through the years the people of God have gotten the idea that it’s godly to do painful things and give up pleasure. I don’t exactly know why this is, but…it is. So you get the accounts of the saints of old who prayed for hours while kneeling on rocks. Yikes…and this in the Continue reading
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What Jesus Wanted You to Know
One of the tasks of a preacher is to say old things in new ways. And you know why – because it’s a bit like singing old songs. We all appreciate the classics, and they can still move us, but you have to admit that it’s pretty easy to put your mind on auto-pilot when you Continue reading
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A Lesson on Procrastination
It’s been almost 30 years, so I don’t remember his name. Could’ve been John…so let’s go with that. But I do remember the conversation we had, because he told me something I never forgot. And I remember something else too (read to the end). Here’s the story: It was circa August 1986, and my third year 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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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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If God is Your Hobby, He is Not Your God
Have you ever met a man who says he believes in God, and yet views Him as a relatively insignificant part of life? The world is full of such men (and women). He may go to church every so often, he may or may not read the Bible, he usually tries to do good. He may give a little money 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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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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How to be a Noble Christian
I owe it to my years in the Navigators that I can’t read the Bible without seeing a highlighter through certain verses. Now I generally don’t mark in my Bibles, but I think you know what I mean: as I read, there are certain verses that I have heard referred to so many times that they Continue reading
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