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Lawful Yet Deadly
While Scripture is clear in some areas, in others it gives us only broad principles. The growth of the Internet in the last several decades has brought an onslaught of situations for which we are not given specific applications in Scripture. How do we decide to handle something the Bible doesn’t specifically address?
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For Whom Is Reserved the Blackness of Darkness Forever
It’s easy for my daily Scripture reading to fall into a monotonous routine, but one day while reading through the book of Jude, a few lines from the book jumped out and grabbed me by the throat. Jude begins his letter by warning the early church of false teachers and apostates who were creeping in…
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Communicate, Create, or Consume?
My dad never owned a Leatherman multitool. Or if he did, he didn’t use it much and it ended up in the bottom of a junk drawer. He often told me that tools like Leathermans, Swiss Army knives, and other multitools that tried to combine the functionality of multiple tools into one ended up doing…
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What Are You Feeding On?
What we eat has profound effects on our health. It’s why when we are young our parents made us eat our vegetables, even though we might have preferred to have subsisted on chicken nuggets and french fries.
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Light and High Beauty
The news of the last several years has been pretty dark. First, it was the 2016 election of Donald Trump to the presidency. Rumors of Russian interference in the election as well as Trump’s tendency toward inflammatory rhetoric stoked the fires of division between Right and Left. In late 2019 we heard whispers of a…
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Is Your Church Alive?: Produces More of Itself
It is easier to focus inward and try to preserve the good things we have in our churches. Often it is presented as a choice, we must either try to keep our young people, or we can be church that reaches out to the lost.
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Is Your Church Alive?: Responds to External Conditions
Deadly pathogens from the surrounding culture are constantly finding their way into the body of Christ. Wealth and prosperity shifts our focus from using our resources to serve others to heaping up treasures on earth.
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Is Your Church Alive?: Responds to Internal Changes
To be alive, vibrant, and effective, churches must be aware of the spiritual conditions within their congregation. Pride, hypocrisy, and love of earthly things are just a few things that can hinder the work of the church.
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Is Your Church Alive?: Grows and Matures
We know something is wrong if a five-year-old child cannot dress himself or if a teenager is still playing with toy tractors or dolls. These things are expected at a certain age, but we also expect that every child will mature and move onto other things. As Paul said, “but when I became a man,…
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Is Your Church Alive?: Need Energy
How often do you connect with Christ? Is your time with God each day meaningful, or are you going through the motions because you know it’s the right thing to do?