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A Tale of Two Mounts: God Giving Law

It’s not by accident that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount was delivered on a mountain. “On the Mount” isn’t in the title merely to distinguish it from another sermon given on a plain. What we have instead is an intentional … Continue reading →

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Fear, Treasure and Eternity in Our Hearts

The Sermon on the Mount is tough to swallow all at once. Though what we have recorded for us in Matthew 5–7 is significantly shorter than the sermons most of us are used to, it is on the other hand … Continue reading →

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What in the World? Hating the World By Wanting Its Love

I posted some years ago, on social media, the following bit of wisdom- “Too often we train our children to make their way in the world. I want to train my children to make war on the world.” In the … Continue reading →

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Lisa, Martha, Mary, Steve Lawson, Nahum, Nathan and Me

Drink deep from this week’s podcast- now available with pumpkin spice. This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Shocked and Appalled: How Could We Miss We Could?

Scandal is tragic. No, it’s not merely sad. It is that to be sure. Tragedy, however, contains within its meaning not just hardship, but the downfall of the once lifted up. It may be a tragedy when a white stag … Continue reading →

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Risk and Reward: How the Gospel Empowers Community

One challenge, recognized even by its proponents, of sundry church growth strategies is getting pew sitters engaged and involved. The challenge flows out of the contradiction between what draws people and where we want them to end up. People expect … Continue reading →

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Ask RC: How do you handle times of spiritual dryness?

There is a reason we call mountaintop experiences mountaintop experiences- the very glory of them makes them rare. The top of a mountain is sublime, exhilarating. But you can’t live there. On our journey to the Celestial City we all … Continue reading →

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Cancel Culture: How The World Denies Grace

There are a thousand ways the church foolishly follows the world. It is a perennial problem, just another form of the syncretism that led ancient Israel down the path of destruction. Typically our following is permissive. That is, when the … Continue reading →

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Why is Big Eva So Loose? Exploring Our Love for the World

Because that’s what the boys like. Big Eva does not match the world’s standard of desirability. Her hair is a hot mess; she’s kind of flabby and her voice can be incredibly grating. She realizes that her only hope of … Continue reading →

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Kids These Days, And All the Other Days

It’s a funny thing about slippery slopes— you can slide down them slowly. The principle behind the concept isn’t that you must move swiftly from here down to there if you have no moral brakes, but that you will move. … Continue reading →

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