Books Read in 2020
(Yearly books read post side-note: Reader, please feel free to skip this post if it sounds boastful at any point. Personal posts like this on my blog are mainly for…
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God’s Forgiveness: Sin Is Serious, but So Is Forgiveness
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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You and I Are Part of the “Them”: Curbing Our Judging of the Culture
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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10 Ways God Lovingly Allows You to Suffer for Your Good
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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During Coronavirus Christ Is Being Proclaimed—And In That We Rejoice
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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Good Friday, Easter Sunday—What About Saturday? The Cosmic Significance of Jesus’s Day in the Tomb
Yesterday was Good Friday. Tomorrow Jesus is going to rise. But Saturday he’s in the tomb. What is the significance of today? There’s many answers. Our God is a God…
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Perish or Paradise: “Today You Will Be With Me In Paradise”
One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear…
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Have God’s Promises about Pestilence Failed? No: Learning from a 17th Century Brother in Christ
Psalm 91 promises, “He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the…
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The Most Significant Choice You’ll Make This Coronavirus Season: Will You Actively Pursue Christ?
You could look back at this coronavirus season as one of the times where you grew exponentially in Christ. Or not. We each have the opportunity years from now to…
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Coronavirus Lockdown Recommended Books
In the attached post, we discussed how we each could look back at this coronavirus season and see it mainly as a time we grew in Christ. We have a tremendous…
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