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Does God bless and curse those who bless and curse Israel?

It must be true, because this is what God says, isn’t it? Well, actually God says this, “I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you; 
 And in you all the families of the … Continue reading →

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Sacred Marriage, Mary; Lawson & Gossip; 70s Packaging

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Is there anything wrong with drums and guitars in church?

I am frankly astonished that the worship wars rattle on. The army of praise choruses, light shows and worship bands have left the Psalms, the organ, and our father’s hymnal decimated. The conflict, as with most conflicts, was utterly unnecessary. … Continue reading →

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La, La, La, La, La, I Can’t Hear You- Fingers in Our Ears

The world, Paul tells us, knows what’s coming. Romans 1 not only highlights the universal guilt of all men, but, ironically, defines that guilt as the denial of what we know. We know God is and that we fail to … Continue reading →

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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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Silence of the Shams: Cyberspace Lessons from Middle-Earth

Every new technology seems to raise new ethical questions. What we discover, however, is that the old answers suffice to answer the new questions. Consider the internet. For some of you the internet is as normal as the sunrise. You’ve … 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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