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How the Mercy of God Flourishes in Suffering
It is important to recognize that this process of perception, interpretation, and conclusion has a significant impact on the way people experience life. Understanding this can have a profound impact on helping people walk through difficult seasons of suffering.
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Revisiting Discipleship (Fruit That Remains)
I began to look back and realize that hardly, if any, of the people I led to Christ were discipled, growing, and flourishing in their relationship with God. There was little to to no “fruit that remains.”
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The Unified Book of Acts
During a recent study of the book of Acts, I was struck with the recurring emphasis on the irrepressibility of the gospel.
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Treat Your Pastors Well
As a professor at a seminary, I have the great privilege of training men for pastoral ministry. Every year new faces come in, full of excitement and trepidation. What most of them don’t realize is how dangerous their calling truly is.
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The Incredible Lightness of Terrible Trials
It says here that you were nearly stoned to death, left for dead, flogged, unjustly thrown in prison, shipwrecked, bitten by venomous snakes, reviled, and generally persecuted wherever you went. Paul, how would you classify these many trials you experienced?
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Forgetful Believers
Forgetfulness is a common, yet deadly spiritual disease. That is why God's Word gives so much emphasis to calling us to remember.
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Another Paradox of Evangelism
Here’s another paradox of evangelism. When we accept that evangelism will never be easy… it actually gets slightly less difficult.
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4 Illustrations of Faith in Practice…
What is God currently asking you to do by faith?
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Actually Praying
If your life is anything like mine, you are the designated pray-er for family functions. But there is a significant risk when we bow for prayer but don’t actually pray.
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Can I Really Trust the Bible?
One of the most remarkable characteristics of the Bible has to do with prophecies about the future. Have you ever taken time to examine some of the things that were prophesied in the Old Testament and then fulfilled hundreds of years later?
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The Threefold Antidote to Timidity
Paul gathers together three key terms here that most people don’t naturally think of as belonging with each other. Any one of them by itself is usually not enough. Two of them together are much better. But all three are necessary for a full-orbed personality of godly leadership.
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What Do Those Bible Names Mean?
People's names in the Bible often relate rather closely to their life, role, or responsibility. Here's a sampling to show you what we mean.
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Why Christians Need History
Christianity is an explanation of historical data, which is, in fact, one of the things that sets it apart from nearly every other religion.
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10 Considerations for Understanding Biblical Faith
To understand faith I always have to put it in terms of a relationship. When we speak of a Biblical faith, we are speaking in terms of having faith… trusting… based upon our relationship with God through His son, Jesus Christ.
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A Theme Verse for Thoughtful Faith
There are some things only God knows or can know. People are not omniscient. But there are some things that people can know, should know, and would find great “glory” in seeking out.
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Triperspectivalism in the Psalms
While working through the Psalms devotionally, I began to see a triperspectival pattern (to no one’s surprise) worth mentioning. A great example of this would be Psalm 71.
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If You Want To Get To Me You’ll Have To Go Through…
When Jesus saved me, I was amazed, grateful and relieved that he would forgive my sins. But I could never have fathomed the depths of the relationship he had brought me into.
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Are All Sins Equal?
One person commits adultery, but probably all of us lust. So how can we criticize the adulterer or engage in church discipline with them?
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Beware of the Lion (1 Peter 5:8)
I see so many people today who seem to have no fear of Satan… the Lion. They “wrestle” around with him in a playful way just as this man plays around with these creatures in real life.
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Don’t Let Systematic Theology Mess With Your Head
Should we study systematic theology? Of course! It’s invaluable. But when reading God’s word, let each passage speak for itself first.
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