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August 15, 2023
Madonna’s emptiness — and ours
Artist-musician Madonna made a career out of pushing the limits of morality. Every few years she seemed to come out with something more outrageous. Tim Keller references a statement she made in an interview with Vogue magazine where she explained why: My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always […]
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August 12, 2023
THE TWO LOST SONS
“There was a man who had two sons.” The Lost Younger Brother Jesus’s story might best be named the Parable of the Two Lost Sons. It is a drama in two acts, with Act 1 entitled “The Lost Younger Brother” and Act 2 “The Lost Elder Brother.” Act 1 begins with a short but shocking […]
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August 10, 2023
A Personal Example of Life-Change
I got a clear picture of this transformation process pretty early in my Christian experience. My dad was brought up in a strong, moral, “culturally Christian” home, but he was not a Christian. He grew up during the Depression, his father died when he was thirteen, and either by his mother’s permission or by lying […]
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August 8, 2023
Why People Like Jesus but Not the Church
Both older brothers and younger brothers are with us today, in the same society and often in the very same family. Frequently the oldest sibling in a family is the parent-pleaser, the responsible one who obeys the parental standards. The younger sibling tends to be the rebel, a free spirit who prefers the company and […]
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August 7, 2023
Make America Dinner Again
In the Bible, we see Jesus eating a lot of meals. Why? Because Jesus came to bring people and God together and, because people are God’s kids, to bring people and people together. For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on […]
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August 5, 2023
According to classic evolution, a simple cell slowly evol...
According to classic evolution, a simple cell slowly evolved into more complex plants and animals through the process of time, chance, natural selection, mutations, and survival of the fittest. Before and after The Origin of Species, people believed in spontaneous generation. In 1860, a year after Darwin wrote his famous book, Louis Pasteur proved to […]
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August 3, 2023
Nudging the conversation toward evangelism
It’s also helpful to think of these types of questions as catalyst questions. They act the same way a catalyst acts in chemistry: all the ingredients are there for a chemical reaction, but nothing happens until we add a catalyst. When it comes to evangelism, sometimes all the ingredients are there for a good conversation […]
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August 1, 2023
Do you feel like you are missing something?
“I’m missing something.” That’s the shared sentiment of almost every person who has ever walked the face of the earth. Strangely enough, it ties in to why we don’t like to be naked in public. According to Genesis, the first thing Adam and Eve felt after they had sinned against God was that something was […]
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July 25, 2023
What does the Bible teach about life after death?
I was a Christian for years before the reality of this truth dawned on me. I knew that believers would be resurrected, but never thought about the fact that everyone will be resurrected. In Acts 24 the apostle Paul was on trial and giving his defense. He told everyone present that he was not changing […]
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July 21, 2023
Breaking the Non-Christian Bubble
Typically, when we as Christians get fired up to do evangelism, we go out solo. We go and sign up for a book club or a cooking class or a football team, hoping to be the one person who tells them about Jesus. These solo efforts are admirable and worthy. But the result is that […]
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