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Continue reading →: Words of SubstanceIt was meant to be a routine Saturday night with friends, a simple dinner followed by a concert. Little did I know it was destined to be an extraordinary experience. These moments, though rare, are etched in our memories. They are the times when God’s comfort unexpectedly embraces us. It…
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Continue reading →: Communities of RestorationOne of the harshest environments for anything to live in is our stomachs. In fact, The human stomach is a pear-shaped chamber filled with a highly noxious cocktail of hydrochloric acid and protein-cleaving digestive enzymes called peptidases. This gastric soup can have a pH of 1 to 3; the pH…
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Continue reading →: Hope Springs Eternal?To encourage someone who wants something to happen, people sometimes say, “Hope springs eternal.” This is a shortened version of a line from the Alexander Pope (1688-1744) poem, “An Essay on Man.” The original line is “Hope springs eternal in the human breast.” For Pope, hope was inherent in the…
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Continue reading →: A Hope That Never Leaves UsIt is elusive for some—always out of grasp. It is like the cat chasing and pawing at the toy mouse on the end of the string. When the cat thinks she has the toy mouse in her grasp, the giggling cat owner pulls on the string. I am talking about…
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Continue reading →: The Question Echoing Through the Ages(An exposition of Genesis 18:1-15) It is a lazy summer day at lunchtime. You are escaping the heat and relaxing in the shade on your front porch. There is a comfortable breeze blowing. Before you slip off into a comfortable doze, you notice three men standing in your yard. Huh,…
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Continue reading →: The Grace in God’s WrathI cannot recall the exact moment when the phrase “I will sayit again for possible penetration” entered my teaching lexicon. It may havebeen from a former instructor in a military classroom, where the assumption wasthat all trainees had thick skulls. This phrase often escapes my lips when Iwant my students…
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Continue reading →: The Ordinary Christian LifeIf you watch any sports on TV, perhaps you have seen a humorous commercial by the online betting program BET 365 featuring curling. The seminal line in the commercial says, “At BET 365, we don’t do ordinary…we believe every sport should be epic.” The effectiveness of the commercial lies in…
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Continue reading →: Who Has the Most Influence on My Life?Who has the most influence on my life? After reading Carl Trueman’s latest article in First Things, I thought of this question. You can read the article here. Trueman writes, Online noise may incline us all to think our churches are battlegrounds; but the petty rages of those who live…
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Christ Our Redemption
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Continue reading →: Christ Our RedemptionAnd because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. (1 Cor. 1:30-31) This is the culmination of a 4-part series. You can read…
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Continue reading →: Christ Our SanctificationAnd because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord. (1 Cor. 1:30-31) This is part 3 of a 4-part series. You can read…
The Established Path of Discipleship 