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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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Rules For Our Reformation: Learning from Luther

The Protestant Reformation is called the Reformation for a good reason. It is not called the First Reformation or Reformation II, as if they happen every so often. I have never been asked, when referencing the Reformation, “Of which Reformation … 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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Happy There Is Nothing New Under the Sun Year

Imagine, if you would, that you are the most powerful person in the world. Now imagine that you are also the richest person in the world. Would your life be fundamentally different? Would everything that is now ordinary about your … 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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Guest Post from Dutch Theologian, Linus Van Pelt

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The Spirit of Christmas Presents: A Christmas Tradition

This week’s Special Christmas Eve Podcast

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