Category Archives: church

The Smell of Death Surrounds Us: Savorless Salt

When we are yet outside the kingdom, before we’re born again, we suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1). Romans 1 isn’t saying we are stupid. It says we are foolish. We know what we know but because such knowledge … Continue reading

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Sacred Marriage; Honor & the Good Life; 1 Point Sermon

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The Other Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

When the world considers the evangelical church they don’t conclude we’re overrun with intellectual rigor. They don’t consider us the sharpest knives in the drawer. God commands us to love Him with all of our minds. He gives us, His … Continue reading

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From Orthodoxy to Doxology and Back Again

When Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, describes the church as the body of Christ, he speaks more wisely than we fools tend to hear. As is the habit of the modern evangelical church, we take the full, … Continue reading

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Sophisticated Lady: The Church That’s Not a Church

We’ve all heard the horror stories. First comes the church that offered visitors a free oil change during the “service” if you would come. Next, some churches offered simple cash rewards. More recently a church raffled off a new Harley … Continue reading

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What is the “mind of Christ” we’re called to have?

Paul encourages us in his letter to the Philippians, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” Ben Gutierrez argues in Living Out The Mind of Christ, the antecedent “this” points backward to what Paul was … Continue reading

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Blessed Are the Persecuted For My Name’s Sake

The early church faced at least two distinct and competing enemies. While Jesus walked the earth and after, God’s kingdom faced the challenges of both the Roman Empire and Judaism. An armed terror that was, though given to emperor worship, … Continue reading

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Our Gratitude and Our Shame in God’s Country

Every few weeks, on my podcast, posted right here every Wednesday, I do a segment called “That 70s Kid.” Therein I give myself free rein to wax nostalgic about those halcyon days. I might talk about the great cereals we … Continue reading

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Anything You Can Do I Can Do Worser; I Can Do Anything…

Worser than you. This is not, of course, reason to boast, but is reason for shame. The worst shame, however, comes when I forget this truth. We find it all too easy to sit in judgment of others. Now I’m … Continue reading

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Priorities, Emphases and the Lord Who Sets Them

There are, when we disagree, almost always two disagreements. Most of the time the smaller disagreement is the bigger one. Consider election. There are some in the church who believe that God chooses who will believe His gospel. There are … Continue reading

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