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Leaders Are Gifted to Equip God’s People for Service

This passage begins with a statement that “Christ himself gave.” Transformation begins and ends with grace. God provides significant leaders in different places to help mature His body, but the focus is never supposed to be on the leaders. It’s always on the One who gives the leaders. God never wants us to place spiritual […]

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Evangelism in the Workplace

The workplace has changed. These days, people try to get to work as early as possible to beat traffic. They skip coffee breaks. They eat lunch at their desk. They rush out at the end of the day to beat rush hour traffic and then pick up their children. How does coffee, dinner, gospel work […]

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For the first time in the Gallup poll’s eight-decade history

For the first time in the Gallup poll’s eight-decade history, in 2020 church membership in the United States fell below 50 percent in America. From World War II all the way to the mid-1990s, church membership among adults was nearly always above 70 percent. The precipitous decline occurred across all religious traditions and, as we’ve […]

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REDEFINING SIN

“All these years I’ve been slaving for you.” Two Ways to Find Happiness Jesus uses the younger and elder brothers to portray the two basic ways people try to find happiness and fulfillment: the way of moral conformity and the way of self-discovery. Each acts as a lens coloring how you see all of life, […]

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The Dechurching of America

I just finished a haunting historical description of the church in my lifetime. I’d like to offer a suggestion. But, before I do, let me give you an excerpt from the book: From 1870 to 1895, church attendance more than doubled, from 13.5 million people to 32.7 million, as the general population grew from 38.6 […]

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How Science Points to a Creator

Albert Einstein published his equations of general relativity in 1915, and a Dutch astronomer named Willem de Sitter discovered a solution to them that predicted an expanding universe. The importance of these discoveries showed the world that the universe was expanding. If the galaxies were moving farther and farther apart, the implication was that they […]

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Please, Sorry, Thanks

According to linguists, abracadabra is the most universally used word that doesn’t need translation.[1] It’s a word employed by magicians, but the etymology is more spiritual than magical. The ancient words A’bra K’dabra mean “As I speak, I shall create.”[2] In other words, words create worlds! “Words,” said the Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel, “are themselves […]

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Creative Ways to Do Hospitality

I live on a street where the men have a habit of watering the front lawn by hand with a garden hose. I’m sure their wives are asking, “Why can’t you use a sprinkler?” The men probably argue that a sprinkler wastes water. But, deep down, the real reason is that it gives the men […]

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Growing Faith

SOME YEARS AGO we planted a tree on the west side of our house expecting it to grow and eventually shade us from the afternoon sun. We were disappointed because, for some reason, the tree didn’t grow. It didn’t die, but neither did it grow. Possibly, it was because it was poor stock to begin […]

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Why you can’t grow spiritually without your pastor

God’s Gift of Specialists Up to this point, we have explored the foundations of our new life in Christ and the process of transformation into His image. But, as we’ve seen, the specifics of God’s design involve other members of the team, the church. As Paul turns from the gift of grace apportioned to each […]

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