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September 8, 2024
Learning to Lament
However, in that journey we also learned that many Christians, like us, were unfamiliar—even uncomfortable—with lament. When occasionally I candidly shared a few of the struggles of my soul, some people reacted with visible discomfort. Others quickly moved to a desperate desire to “find the bright side,” a quick change of the subject, an awkward […]
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September 7, 2024
September 6, 2024
What is belief?
You might think that you believe exercise is good, but you don’t exercise, and you should have a Quiet Time, but you didn’t this morning. Let’s look at two ways we use this word belief. I had a long layover in Auckland, New Zealand once. Someone had told me about the Sky Tower. At over […]
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September 5, 2024
We must come to love the Christian life, or we will never come to live the Christian life
There is a common misperception—inside and outside the church—that Christian living is fundamentally about trying really hard to be good. It is not. It is about being transformed. This has a lot to do with changing the way we think: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing […]
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September 4, 2024
Prayer As Relationship
Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God. Prayer is “talking with God about what we are doing together,” as Dallas Willard puts it. In addition to all the other work that gets done through prayer, perhaps the greatest work […]
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September 3, 2024
Why you can’t learn discipleship alone
One of the principles we will look at is the idea that we are transformed by speaking the truth. We are changed more by what we say than by what we hear. When we hear a sermon on gratitude, we resolve to try really hard to be more grateful. This never works. When we speak […]
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September 2, 2024
HOW TO RUIN YOUR LIFE (WITHOUT EVEN TRYING)
In Romans 1:18–32, Paul describes how a human life spirals into ruin. Written nineteen centuries before the advent of modern psychology, Paul’s assessment of the human person remains the most brilliant depiction of soul destruction I have ever read. Perhaps you will want to read Romans 1:18–32 in your own Bible, in its entirety, but […]
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The SOAP method of bible study
At New Hope we’ve done any number of things over the years to help our church grow, but one thing we’ve done stands head and shoulders above everything else. It has nothing to do with demographics. It doesn’t depend on location. It isn’t triggered by worship style. It’s developing a self-feeding program, using a simple […]
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September 1, 2024
August 31, 2024
Discipleship is complicated
In many areas of life, you have to do multiple things right to have success. For example, if you want to hit a tennis ball correctly, you have to understand… • The proper court positioning. • The proper stance. • The proper grip. • The proper backswing. • The proper eye contact. You can’t hit […]
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