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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…
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What God Forbids You To Judge
I am a judgmental person. I’m often amazed and dismayed by how quickly I leap to judgment, often without facts, without knowledge, without sympathy. Of course there are times when judgment is right and good…
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Four Good Questions To Ask Your Tech
Have you ever considered how much time we spend talking to our tech? How many times a day do we command Alexa, ask Siri, or give an order to ChatGPT? We are in constant communication with our devices and through our devices. And since we are already in the habit of asking them our deep…
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Prayer Fetched the Angel
We would not pray if we did not have confidence that God answers prayer. And indeed, his Word promises that he does.
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You, Me, and G3
I have fond memories of the early years of the G3 Conference. When G3 held its debut event in 2013, I was one of the invited speakers and it quickly became a tradition. For eight years I fell into the comfortable pattern of making an annual trip to Atlanta. I would almost always speak in…
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AI Makes Me Doubt Everything
Most technological innovations take place slowly and then all at once. We first begin to hear about them as distant possibilities, then receive the first hints that they are drawing near, and then one day we realize they are all around us.
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What Does a Discerning Person Do?
Some Christians seem to be specially gifted when it comes to spiritual discernment. Others take a special interest in discernment and expend the hard effort of growing in the discipline of it. But they may sometimes wonder: What should I do with this discernment?
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The Reward They Longed for They Received
Jesus, who knew what was in the heart of men, warned of the hypocrisy of those whose prayer life is only ever public. “When you pray,” he said, “you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen…
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Is This Really a Good Idea?
Would it be okay if we engage our imaginations a little bit today? Though it’s not the standard fare of this site, how about we try it and see how it goes?