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March 7, 2019
Obedience is not enough
When my oldest daughter was a toddler, she loved balloons. So for her third birthday party I blew up fifty red balloons. It was not an easy feat, but I was pretty excited about how excited she would be when she saw them. When she walked into the party, however, she looked confused. She picked […]
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March 6, 2019
God never places you on hold
God doesn’t delay. He never places you on hold or tells you to call again later. God loves the sound of your voice. Always. He doesn’t hide when you call. He hears your prayers. For that reason “be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made […]
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March 5, 2019
The Joy of Community
When Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo, running backs for the Chicago Bears, began rooming together in the late sixties, it was a first for both of them. Sayers had never had a close relationship with a white person and Piccolo had never really known a black person. During the 1968 season, Gale Sayers suffered a […]
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March 4, 2019
You have won the lottery
The apostle Paul entered the pages of Scripture as Saul, the self-professed Pharisee of all Pharisees and the most religious man in town. But all his scruples and law keeping hadn’t made him a better person. He was bloodthirsty and angry, determined to extinguish anything and everyone Christian. His attitude began to change on the […]
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March 3, 2019
God loves you. How deeply do you believe it?
In his book With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God, Skye Jethani tells of his meetings with college students from the House of Despair, an “underground safehouse” for those struggling with the difficult issues of life and faith. Around their Christian campus, these students were known for numbing their pain with alcohol, drugs, sex, […]
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March 2, 2019
Coffee cup verses
Maybe you’ve already realized that Philippians is filled with what we might call “coffee-cup verses”—passages of Scripture that have so stirred the hearts and minds of believers over the years that we’ve thrown them on coffee cups, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. As a quick survey, we see in Philippians 1 that “to live is Christ, […]
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Multiplying House Churches
Christianity is spreading faster now than it has at any time in human history. If that statement surprises you, it means that you probably live in the Global North where Christianity is—at best—holding its own. But Christianity is exploding in the Global South. Consider: There were nine million Christians in Africa in 1900; by 2000, […]
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March 1, 2019
It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you are sincere… really?
The second presupposition is that it really doesn’t matter what a person believes as long as he or she sincerely practices those beliefs. We live in a very pluralistic society today. To say that only one religious belief is right actually makes you sound intolerant, narrow-minded, anti-intellectual, and uncaring. Popular belief holds that what is […]
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Are House Churches Biblical?
All around the world the gospel is spreading and, in many cases, spreading rapidly. They are doing it—pretty much without exception as best I can tell—through House Churches. (See https://www.joshhunt.com/house-church... ) Perhaps we should experiment with House Churches. But, only if they are biblical, right? Let’s look at what the Bible says: Acts 2:46 (NIV) […]
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