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Sacred Marriage; Epstein, Unease and Peace and More

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Two Cheers for Doubt: When And Where to not Be Sure

Do we not tend to see doubt as something negative? Something to avoid or overcome? Doubt is what we writers and editors, when we hang out together and tell stories about the rest of you, call a “transitive” verb. These … Continue reading

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Child Abuse in the Godhead? Penal Substitutionary Atonement

One of the great dangers that comes of stripping words of their meaning is the constant need to up their intensity to try to get the work done. That is, if we embrace the idea that words have no meaning, … Continue reading

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Do the miracles of Jesus depend on the recipient’s faith?

Yes and no. In Matthew 13 we find Jesus back in His hometown. The people had heard of the wonders He had done, but were skeptical. It is here Jesus said a prophet is not without honor except in his … Continue reading

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Rightly Ordering Our Love: a Brief Lesson

It was Augustine who argued that every sin is a failure to love ordinately. Either we love something more than we ought or love something less than we ought. We are to love, in order. Eve, for instance, found the … Continue reading

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Back Up: Rethinking Rebukes From a Friend

It is because we are saved by grace that we sinners are able to confess publicly that we are sinners. It is because we are sinners, however, that we are so quick to get defensive any time someone accuses us … Continue reading

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And It Came To Pass: The Tapestry of Providence

I was not, as a kid, a particularly gifted athlete. It’s true I enjoyed sports, however, and so my hours were determined by the seasons: football, basketball, baseball. I realized early on that my gifts were limited, while my desire … Continue reading

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Who’s On First? What’s On Second? Christ and His Kingdom

The one thing I want you to be certain to do is finish reading this piece and brush your teeth every evening. I trust at least two things strike you about this opening sentence. First, it’s a rather odd way … Continue reading

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Paradise Remembered: Longing for Our Home

Nostalgia has as its lightly buried foundation a longing for a place we have never been to, Eden. Home is but an echo, a shadow of our first and final home. Most of you were not blessed as I was, … Continue reading

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What is God’s will for my life? How Can I Know It?

It’s a common enough question. So many people have me asked this question as if I’m the recruiter down at the Lord’s army. My questioner wants to know will he have the Special Forces style glamour of overseas missions in … Continue reading

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