Angelic Encouragement: “You Are Greatly Loved”
Angels are “ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation” (Hebrews 1:14). Put simply, they are servants deployed by God to help…
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“Oh, If You Would But Listen to Me!”: The Center of the Psalms, the Central Issue for Us
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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Does Signing A Membership Form Go Against Jesus’s Teaching On Oaths In Matthew 5:33-37?
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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How Can Jesus Live in a Sinner Like Me?
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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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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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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Christian, You Must Seek Your Glory (From God, Not From Others)
We as Christians have largely forgotten the goal of our glory. We emphasize bringing glory of God. “Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).…
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Quality, Quantity, and Seeking the Other
It has become commonplace to talk about idolatry in Christian churches. Things which we place on an equal plane with God—be it money, success, comfort, fame, sex, or anything—are our…
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How Can Jesus’s Government Increase Without End? The Possibility of New Worlds in Eternity
We’ll all probably heard the prophecy about Jesus from Isaiah 9 this Christmas season. It is predicted there that Jesus will be born, he’ll be king, he’ll be called “Wonderful…
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