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Painful, Gracious Arrows: How Hurting Thorns Can Become Life-Giving Vines

January 10, 2023

Ephesians 6:16 instructs us, “In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.” Yet what happens when…

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“Oh, If You Would But Listen to Me!”: The Center of the Psalms, the Central Issue for Us

June 21, 2022

Overall Israel disobeyed the Lord. They turned from his ways to their own. We can say more, though. For mere disobedience sounds too external. It can imply their primary issue…

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5 min

Sin Is “Barbs In Your Eyes, Thorns In Your Sides”

April 18, 2022

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes…

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15 min

Does Signing A Membership Form Go Against Jesus’s Teaching On Oaths In Matthew 5:33-37?

November 6, 2021

This post was written for my church at Evangelical Community Church in Stamford, CT. I include it here because, although it is specifically about what our church is doing with…

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4 min

Something to Try: Scheduled Praying

August 30, 2021

“Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.” (Psalm 55:17) “Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at…

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3 min

How Can Jesus Live in a Sinner Like Me?

August 22, 2021

At a Bible study at our church recently, we came upon the point in Colossians where the climax of the gospel is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians…

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4 min

God’s Forgiveness: Sin Is Serious, but So Is Forgiveness

July 8, 2020

We can fall into two opposite errors when we think of God’s forgiveness. Many twenty-first century people fall into the first error by taking God’s forgiveness for granted. “Of course…

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4 min

You and I Are Part of the “Them”: Curbing Our Judging of the Culture

May 14, 2020

They do wrong and evil. They know it and yet keep doing it. They even give approval to others who do it. This is Paul’s point in Romans 1:32: They…

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5 min

10 Ways God Lovingly Allows You to Suffer for Your Good

May 4, 2020

I recently preached a sermon about how God lovingly allows us to suffer for his glory and our good. The text was John 11:1-16, the focal point on suffering arising…

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7 min

During Coronavirus Christ Is Being Proclaimed—And In That We Rejoice

April 16, 2020

Two thousands years ago Paul of Tarsus was in a jail cell in Rome writing a letter to his beloved church, the Philippians. The imprisonment wasn’t easy on him. Roman…

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Christian Living

Painful, Gracious Arrows: How Hurting Thorns Can Become Life-Giving Vines

“Oh, If You Would But Listen to Me!”: The Center of the Psalms, the Central Issue for Us

Sin Is “Barbs In Your Eyes, Thorns In Your Sides”

Does Signing A Membership Form Go Against Jesus’s Teaching On Oaths In Matthew 5:33-37?

Something to Try: Scheduled Praying

How Can Jesus Live in a Sinner Like Me?

God’s Forgiveness: Sin Is Serious, but So Is Forgiveness

You and I Are Part of the “Them”: Curbing Our Judging of the Culture

10 Ways God Lovingly Allows You to Suffer for Your Good

During Coronavirus Christ Is Being Proclaimed—And In That We Rejoice

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