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The Wonder of the Human Face
Then there are the wonders of human ingenuity: the machines, the inventions, the works of art. One lifetime is not nearly enough to explore or appreciate even the smallest fraction of them all.
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Pray Until You Feel Like It
It is wise to set aside a time and place to pray—to build the habit and to then maintain it. But creating the habit may not always create the desire.
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Is It Fair of God?
It’s a question every Christian is asked to consider at one time or another: Is God fair to punish those who have never heard of Jesus Christ? There are many ways to consider the issue and many ways to answer.
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Satan Can Stage a Quiet Revival Too
We are hearing encouraging reports of a kind of quiet revival that is spreading throughout the West. There appears to be a small but noticeable interest in the Christian faith by groups that, until recently, had eschewed it
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Let Them Leap To Hell Over Our Bodies
One of the most sacred and most important of our tasks in prayer is to intercede on behalf of the lost. We know that every one of our friends, neighbors, and family members needs to hear the good news of the gospel and repent and believe. We know that God is the Good Shepherd, who…
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When You Want It More Than They Do
It can be both a joy and a trial to witness another person’s Christian life. It can be a joy when you learn that they long for holiness and that they long to strive toward what is theirs in Christ. It can be a trial when you learn that they appear to have little longing…
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Being the Best You Can Be
There is a world of difference between being the best you can be and wanting to be known as the best.
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Pray Through! Pray Through!
Pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
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The Idol of Popularity
I can speak with first-hand experience to this because it is an idol I once had to fight. I had to take radical action against it.
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Two Ways to Dishonor God With Your Money
We can be mastered by our money by spending too much or too little, by thinking about it too often or too seldom.
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Master Your Moments and Master Your Days
We are taught to cast great visions and dream big dreams…
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Where Is the Right Place to Worship?
A woman from Samaria was once conversing with Jesus and puzzling over the answer to an age-old question: Where is the right place to worship? After all, the Jews and Samaritans worshipped in different places, each convinced theirs was the right and best place. But Jesus answered in a way neither Jew nor Samaritan would…
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Friends Astern & Friends Ahead
I’ve heard that it was an old nautical tradition that when a boat sailed across the Atlantic, the passengers would spend the first half of the voyage raising their glasses to friends astern—to the ones who had seen them off and bid them a fond farewell.
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Am I Sanctified or Am I Tired?
How much am I actually becoming holier and how much am I just becoming wearier? How much have I really grown in sanctification and how much am I just too tired to be bothered pursuing sin?
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We Neglect it at Our Peril
We know that prayer is a crucial discipline for the individual believer, but how often do we consider that it is also a crucial discipline for the assembled church? The Bible prescribes only a few elements for local church worship, but among them is prayer.
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Non-Political Lessons from “Original Sin”
Like so many other people, I came to understand that I was witnessing something deeply significant on the evening of June 27, 2024, as Donald Trump and Joseph Biden met for their fateful debate.
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What Does a Name Mean?
Few matters are more consequential to a man than his name, for a name has importance, a name has association, a name has meaning. The name of Caesar means power. The name of Herod means cruelty…
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One for the Substackers To Consider
I do my best to maintain Inbox Zero. At least once or twice a day, I like to process my emails and take action on each one of them. Though this can be onerous at times, it ensures I stay on top of my correspondence. As I went through this process the other morning, I…