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February 27, 2020
Never Enough
You have a numbers story. Maybe it’s a story of driven, hard work—years of sustained effort to intentionally shape your financial future. Maybe your story is one of powerful generosity—love for the marginalized, marked by an open hand and a willing checkbook. Perhaps it’s a story of lifelong struggle—consistently overcoming the factors that made your […]
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February 26, 2020
New Bible Study: Romans
If we had to summarize what Romans is all about, we could condense it down to this: God is creating out of Jews and Gentiles a people to praise him. Paul regards the gospel as the proclamation that Israel’s long-anticipated release and restoration is happening and is magnetically drawing the Gentiles into its luminous display […]
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February 25, 2020
What ever happened to justice?
In the twentieth century the American church divided between the liberal mainline that stressed social justice and the fundamentalist churches that emphasized personal salvation. One of the founders of the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a German Baptist minister whose first pastorate was on the edge of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen in the […]
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February 23, 2020
Justice and the Prophets
The word justice has been used in the press quite often in recent days. In 2011, huge crowds of protesters gathered in major cities across the United States chanting slogans and holding signs of outrage demanding economic justice during the Occupy Wall Street movement. Also in the same year, a course on justice by Harvard […]
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February 20, 2020
February 18, 2020
God’s perspective on pain
An incident occurred during our son’s early childhood that illustrated for me this profound love of the heavenly Father. Ryan had a terrible ear infection when he was three years old that kept him (and us) awake most of the night. Shirley bundled up the toddler the next morning and took him to see the […]
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February 16, 2020
When God throws you a curve ball
Every honest Christian I know admits there are times when God does exactly the opposite of what you expected him to do. You felt sure God was leading you one way, but a door unexpectedly closed in your face. You thought God was about to give you some blessing, one you had already made plans […]
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February 14, 2020
No pain; no gain
Athletes and artists alike learn that a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments. It required years of toil and misery for Michelangelo to create the Sistine Chapel frescoes that have since given pleasure to so many others. And anyone who has built cabinets in a kitchen or tended a […]
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February 13, 2020
Jesus is not enough
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