Josh Hunt's Blog, page 51

Can we trust a 2000 year old book?

Before we continue our journey together, I’d like to ask you a question. What are your biggest issues with the Bible? What have you heard that has caused you to question the Bible’s validity? Maybe you’re like me when my professor looked at me with disdain, as though I had thrown my brains in the […]

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You view of you changes what you do

My wife, Amy, said that growing up, her friends and even some teachers told her she would always be an average student. She graduated high school with lower grades and continued on that path her first two years of college. That’s when I met her. It was obvious to me that she was extremely bright. […]

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Jesus fulfills prophecy

Jesus’s fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies is nothing short of breathtaking. In at least 322 places, Jewish prophets, who wrote hundreds of years before Jesus’s birth, predicted details about the coming Messiah’s life: he would be born in Bethlehem, from the tribe of Judah and the lineage of David, flee to Egypt as a kid, […]

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Change is not about trying harder to be good

I have a friend who is extraordinarily gifted and appeared to be doing all the right things, but he struggled with temptation, failure, guilt, and self-condemnation for years, even as a pastor and missionary. He beat himself up constantly for not living up to his calling. But all of his prayers and Bible study, all […]

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The only thing that matters

When Moses encountered the burning bush, he had some legitimate questions. He wondered where God had been for the last four hundred years while Israel suffered. He wondered why God let him fail so miserably the first time he tried to rescue Israel. Now he wondered how God could use someone so broken to liberate […]

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God gives things for our enjoyment (1 Timothy 6.17)

Rosalind Goforth, in her story of the life she and her husband led as missionaries in China, told of being robbed by bandits of everything they possessed. She wept. “But my dear,” her husband, Jonathan, chided, “They’re only things!” “So also none of you can be a disciple of mine without parting with all his […]

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Evangelism: our work or God’s work?

When it comes to evangelism, I believe that it’s God’s work. After all, the message of the gospel belongs to God. This is why Paul calls it “the gospel of God” (Romans 1:1, emphasis added). I once heard Timothy Keller compare our work of evangelism with Elijah’s work of building the altar at Mount Carmel […]

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There is more to Christian living than trying hard to be good

Many Christians simply don’t know who they are. They don’t understand their identity in Christ, the new nature they have been given, the foundation of grace God has provided, and the Spirit who lives within them. As a result, they revert to old-nature strategies: try hard, do good, fail, and try again. Those strategies come […]

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Why Behavior Modification doesn’t work

Have you ever said… “I’m going to start reading my Bible every day!” “I’m going to stop watching so much TV.” “I am breaking up with my boyfriend—for real this time!” “I will not yell at my kids anymore.” “I’m going to quit smoking.” “I’m going to stop hitting snooze so I can start getting […]

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The Spiritual Discipline of Learning

More than a decade ago I pastored a church near a small town with two small universities. One school was the main educational institution of the largest evangelical denomination in the state. Known for producing students zealous for Christ’s Kingdom, this university consistently led the dozens of other schools in its denomination in numbers of […]

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