Category Archives: wisdom

Excessive Words; War Principles; Fame and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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The Preponderant Problem of Power Preaching Pulpits

It’s a bad fault of mine, but I suspect you suffer from it as well. My fault is that I assume that others have the same faults I do. If I struggle with pride, my guess is that those to … Continue reading

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The Greatest Commandment: First Study- Our Worthy God

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Your Mercies Begin Afresh Each Day O Lord

There is something both healthy and unhealthy about our propensity to see our salvation in a punctiliar, once-for-all context. Many, though not all of us can pinpoint the day when, by His grace we entered into His kingdom by faith. … Continue reading

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Mostly Modern: A Worldview on Our Worldviews

Does a fish know it’s wet? When one is born in water, goes to school in water, marries in water and raises little fish in water before dying in water, despite its ever presence, the water just isn’t noticed. So … Continue reading

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Meek and Mild? Smoldering Wicks and Cracking Whips

Jesus, like love, is something everyone wants to lay claim to. There is no organized coalition banded together by a hatred of love. So too there are precious few people who are willing to lay a charge at Jesus’ feet. … Continue reading

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Too Easily Distracted, Too Easily Satisfied

We live in a world where work gets done tomorrow. All deadlines must be flexible, negotiable in our day, lest we have no deadlines at all. Excellence has gone the way of the dodo. We are, in the words of … Continue reading

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Stubborn Hearts: Biting the Hand That Feeds Us

You know the drill. Small child asks for eggs for breakfast, scrambled, with cheese. You happily prepare just that for the child. Said child sits for a bit looking at the eggs, then gets down from the table. You ask … Continue reading

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The Problems of Evil and the Problem of Pleasure

There is a great divide between the city of God and the city of man. We all, however, have this much in common — we’re all sinners. One source of the gap may be found in how we look at … Continue reading

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How can professed believers not go or belong to a church?

Sin. The book of Hebrews commands of us both that we not neglect the gathering together of the saints (10:25) and that we remember those who rule over us in the church (13:7). If you don’t go to church, you … Continue reading

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