Tag: Jesus Christ
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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 Asa Attitude
Asa was described as one who “was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God” (2 Chron. 14:2). He was the great-grandson of Solomon, the grandson of Rehoboam, and the son of Abijah. It had been many years since a good and faithful king had reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was not faithful…
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The Book of Job
The first five verses of Job offer us insight into the purpose behind the book. Job is presented as an exceedingly righteous man, one who was “blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1, ESV). Almost to match his moral excellence, he is wealthy and prosperous, blessed materially and…
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Finding Meaning in Spirituality
The human experience only makes sense when you include in your search for purpose the One Who is not “under the sun.” Ecclesiastes reminds us, especially in our materialistic and sensually driven time, that the world is senseless when we eliminate God from the equation. Temporal life can only offer pseudo-replacements that leave us empty…
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Good Sense, Bad Sense, And No Sense At All
Not to oversimplify the topic, but I believe faith can be boiled down into two categories: (1) Faith that responds and (2) faith that doesn’t. There are surely other concepts of faith, but they all fall into one of these two categories. We will consider only one other, and it is an extension of faith…
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