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July 20, 2023
Grace and transformation
It’s easy to get caught up in the fascinating background of Ephesians 4:7–10 and forget the primary purpose of the passage, which will lead into the next section of the letter. Paul’s point about Jesus’ victory is that God has supernaturally endowed every believer with gifts of grace (v. 7). These gifts are empowered by […]
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July 19, 2023
Who were the Nephilim?
The identity of the Nephilim has long troubled interpreters. The word “Nephilim,” a transliteration of the Hebrew, is often understood to mean “fallen ones” (related to the Hebrew root naphal), and then perhaps associated with the fallen angels of Gen 6:2. But its etymology is uncertain. There are two primary explanations for the Nephilim in […]
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July 15, 2023
The God you crave is not the God you can imagine
Maybe the most pathetic part of Israel creating their own “God” is that they now had the burden of caring for this “God.” He didn’t comfort them; they had to dance for him. He couldn’t even move himself from place to place; they had to carry him! What a terrible trade! The true God had […]
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July 12, 2023
Learning evangelism from Jesus
People often ask me, “Is there a limit to what we should go to as Christians?” I usually reply with a nuanced answer. People criticized Jesus for associating so frequently with sinners. When Jesus invited himself over to stay with Zacchaeus, the onlookers gasped in horror: “He has gone to be the guest of a […]
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July 10, 2023
Life-Change Is Both/ And
Only God can transform us. But as we’ve seen, that doesn’t mean we sit passively by while He works on us. We can’t change on our own, but He chooses not to change us unilaterally without our cooperation. As new creations, we enjoy specific privileges and carry out specific responsibilities in the life-change process. Human […]
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July 8, 2023
The true elder brother
Luke 15 informs us in verses 1–3 that Jesus told not one but three parables to the Pharisees who were complaining about his fraternization with sinners. The first parable is called the Parable of the Lost Sheep. A man is tending a flock of one hundred sheep, but one goes astray. Instead of accepting this […]
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July 7, 2023
How to witness: one conversation at a time
I was sitting at a Broadway play.† At halftime (though I think they call it intermission), I stood up for the seventh-inning stretch (also pretty sure that’s the wrong term). The man sitting next to me also stood, and we struck up a conversation. He told me he was with his daughter, celebrating her graduation […]
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July 5, 2023
What does the Bible teach about Hell?
Hell is one of the most misunderstood concepts in all of Scripture. Because we have heard very little teaching on the subject, most of us have heard hell depicted as a place of eternal torment where a callous and capricious God sends people who disagree with Him. By contrast, the scriptural basis for hell reveals […]
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July 2, 2023
Two kinds of people
Most readings of this parable have concentrated on the flight and return of the younger brother—the “Prodigal Son.” That misses the real message of the story, however, because there are two brothers, each of whom represents a different way to be alienated from God, and a different way to seek acceptance into the kingdom of […]
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July 1, 2023
Reshaping God in our image
The irony is that when we reshape God into our image, the result is not the bolder, more confident faith we imagined, but spiritual deformity. God designed the human heart to be complete and free in himself—that is, the true version of himself. As appealing as rival conceptions of him may appear on the surface, […]
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