Tag: Fidelity
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If Satan’s Got Your Number
If Satan’s Got Your Number, Rest Assured He Will Call You. While still cowboying for a living, I had a little mare named Crazy Alice. She was a stocky, well-bred sorrel mare and a good ranch horse. Crazy Alice got her name as an homage to the horse in John Wayne’s movie The Cowboys. The…
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Bad Reasoning…
Consider the following quote: “Those of us who are content to do God’s work in God’s revealed way are often criticized because we are not engaged in all the social and recreational projects commonly practiced in religion today. Some say, ‘I had rather do wrong than do nothing at all.’ Some say, ‘Which is better?…
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To the Protective Partners
Some of the best advice I was given when I first started preaching was ways to protect my marriage (None of these are entirely original to me). The reality is adultery doesn’t just happen. It happens because several other things happened first. Things that are by themselves entirely preventable. That wistful, flirtatious conversation doesn’t just…
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The Chronicler’s Message Post-Exile
For generations, the Israelites had been taught that they were the special covenant people of God. They had been uniquely chosen among the nations and God had made a treaty with them. As they considered their history pre-exile that would be easy to argue. They had an established monarchy through the great King David and…
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