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September 20, 2020
Bearing with one another in love
Be patient, bearing with one another in love. —EPHESIANS 4:2 NIV He picks his teeth in public. She has this odd manner of clearing her voice every few moments. He can’t watch the news without spouting his opinions. She must apply her makeup with a putty knife. He cuts off cars in traffic. She cuts […]
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September 19, 2020
The Gospel and Politics
Myth 4: We see everything clearly. Great Christians can be wrong. As a young believer, that was hard for me to accept. It can be embarrassing to go back and read about some of my English theological heroes who defended imperialism from the Bible, or American pastors who were silent on discrimination—or, even worse, accepted […]
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September 18, 2020
Victory Through Service
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When do people turn to God?
An incident took place a few years ago that has acquired the force of a parable for me. I had a minor operation on my nose and was in my hospital room recovering. Even though the surgery was minor, the pain was great and I was full of misery. Late in the afternoon a man […]
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What is the biblical concept of Shalom?
This world can be a better place. God wants everyday people like you and me to make this world just a bit more like heaven. In one small corner of His grand creation, God created a place that was a lot like heaven. He named it Eden. The Garden State was not just beautiful, it […]
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September 17, 2020
If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post
Christian faith needs continuous maintenance. It re-quires attending to. “If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.”[1] Every spring in my neighborhood a number of people prune their bushes and trees. It is an annual […]
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September 16, 2020
The awesome power of encouragement!
My big brother used to pick on me. For Dee no day was complete unless he had made mine miserable. He’d trip me as I entered the room. He’d yank back the covers on my just-made bed. He’d wrestle me to the floor and sit on my chest until I couldn’t breathe. When his bike […]
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September 15, 2020
The easiest thing in the world is to be a Christian. What is hard is to be a sinner.
There is a general assumption prevalent in the world that it is extremely difficult to be a Christian. While it is true that many don’t completely disqualify themselves as “Christians,” they do modify their claims: ordinary Christians they call themselves. They respect the church, worship fairly regularly, try to live decently. But they also give […]
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September 14, 2020
Isaiah’s Theological Agenda
Paying attention to the historical context will always mean that the theological purpose becomes clearer, which, in turn, matters very much if the living Word of Scripture is going to impact our lives today. We have noted that Isaiah’s time was one of immense political upheaval across the ancient near east, when all the traditional […]
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September 13, 2020
Made for community
We were made to know oneness. That is why loneliness is so painful. In the story of the Creation in the book of Genesis, a little refrain keeps recurring: “And God said…and it was so…and God saw that it was good.” The writer is emphasizing that everything that exists is the effortless activity of an […]
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