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June 15, 2018
Greear: How to do you measure success?
In this book I want to press you to consider — whether you are a church leader or an “ordinary” Christian trying to figure out the best way to use your life — one, primary question: If you looked at every one of your blessings as “kingdom seeds,” how many of them are you planting […]
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June 14, 2018
What is legalism?
Legalism is the opposite heresy of antinomianism. Whereas antinomianism denies the significance of law, legalism exalts law above grace. The legalists of Jesus’ day were the Pharisees, and Jesus reserved His strongest criticism for them. The fundamental distortion of legalism is the belief that one can earn one’s way into the kingdom of heaven. The […]
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Greear: Multiplication beats out addition every time
The second reason that churches that care about the Great Commission will devote themselves to sending is a mathematical one. Perhaps you can remember this math conundrum from middle school: If you have a choice between receiving $10,000 a day for 30 days, or getting $0.01 doubled each day, which would you choose? Almost every […]
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June 13, 2018
Growth without depth
When I was travelling in the 1990s in the interests of the Langham Partnership International, I would often ask an audience how they would summarize the Christian scene in the world today. I would receive a variety of answers. But when invited to give my own answer to the question, I would sum it up […]
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Greear: Growth involves risk
J.D. Greear wrote: Farmers in Oklahoma during the late 1930s faced an excruciating choice. Throughout the 1920s, rain had been plentiful and the harvests abundant, and many city workers had left their factory jobs in the Northeast for a chance of a fortune in the great American Midwest. The stock market crash of 1929 motivated […]
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June 12, 2018
How God leads
How often we assume that God is revealing His will to us through the circumstances around us, even when those circumstances aren’t pointing us toward a healthy or godly decision. When trying to discern God’s will, we often value an open door more than we value truth. The critical choice David faced in this story […]
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June 11, 2018
Lifeway Bible Study For Life June 17
Supplement to Lifeway Bible Studies for Life Lesson, June 17.
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