A Simple Exercise to Determine What You Value
John Calvin, in his opening remarks of The Institutes of the Christian Religion said this: “Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists…
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The Precarious Promise of Peace
Sometimes all of life feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop. You can feel like, in almost any arena of our existence, that you are moving from one…
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Three Distinctions of the True Prosperity Gospel
God wants you to prosper. A statement like that is loaded with implications, many of them leaving a bad taste in our mouths. That’s because the word “prosperity” has been…
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Putting God’s Armor to Use in Three Unlikely Ways
Life is war. Anyone who has seriously put themselves to the task of following Jesus can testify to it. You can feel like your soul is being torn into two…
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The Comfort of What Jesus Knows… and What He Doesn’t
Our children have a love / hate relationship with our knowledge. Most of the time, either Jana or I know what our kids are thinking even before they do, or…
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