Category Archives: wisdom

Chris Beat Cancer II; Lesser of Two Evils; Salt & Light

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Looking Backward, Moving Forward

It doesn’t happen often, but it had happened. A book written for businessmen had jumped the fence and become something of a universal best seller. Like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People before it, and Good to Great after … Continue reading

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Life Wins- On the Passing of John Barros

I’m not shy about the term hero. I have many of them, not because my standards are low. It’s not that I misapply the term, using it as a synonym for “someone I admire.” It is rather that a. I’ve … Continue reading

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Chris Beat Cancer Interview; Remnants; It’s All Good

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Can a person or church be “too” grace focused?

No, of course not. How could one possibly be too focused on God’s undeserved favor toward us? How could one be too committed to showing grace to repentant believers? Under what circumstances could grace lead one astray? The question needs … Continue reading

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The Sins of Silence

Time was when those eager to not be thought fools thought it wise to stay silent. Speaking could change how you are perceived, or it could just confirm a negative opinion already held. This wisdom, whose source is in dispute, … Continue reading

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An Ordinary Christian Life

It has become rather fashionable in certain circles to decry the rise in the church of what we call “the cult of personality”—and rightly so. A broader body consumed with consuming theological and biblical teaching via sundry media outlets is … Continue reading

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Is it wrong to publish anonymously?

That depends a great deal on what one is publishing. Last week I nearly broke the internet when first I suggested that while Pastor Alistair Begg’s advice on attending a loved one’s faux wedding was well off the mark, it … Continue reading

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What are some good goals for the new year?

I’ve never read a book on leadership. I’ve not hired a life coach. I haven’t ever attended a personal development event. And I’m not much one for to-do lists. That said, I can see the wisdom in this aphorism- if … Continue reading

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Ex-vangelical Pharisees, or, Judging We Are Judged

There is, purportedly, a movement out there, a movement out of the church. A bevy of young, feckless and deformed men and women have weighed the evangelical church in the balance and found us wanting. They self-identify as ex-vangelicals. And … Continue reading

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