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Don’t Trust Your Sweetest Frame
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name. On Christ the solid rock I stand… There are going to be many times when my relationship with Christ is sweet, and I find myself in the “sweetest frame”. Scripture seems alive, I see more of Christ through every sermon, and my [...]
Continue reading...A Healthy, Messy Church
9 March 2010
Is your church healthy? There are all kinds of ways to answer that question. Is the Word of God regularly preached? Is it gospel-centered? Does it affirm the historical truths of Christianity? All good, necessary questions. But let me throw out a church health question that you might not think about? Is your church full [...]
Continue reading...Could You Rest In Christ If…
17 February 2010
If I were afflicted by a disease and confined to my bed, never able to do another “good deed” again, could I rest in the finished work of Christ? If I lost my job and never found employment again, or my ministry at church was shut down, could I find my total identity in Christ? [...]
Continue reading...Irrefutable Proof
24 January 2010
One truth that sets Christianity apart from all other religions is the resurrection of Christ from the dead. No other religion claims its founder rose physically from the dead. And no other religion has proof that its version of what happens when we die is true. Has anyone any proof of reincarnation? Has anyone ever [...]
Continue reading...Stay In Sync
9 November 2009
A gazebo for smokers stands outside our local hospital. Often when I drive past it, I see what appear to be health care professionals puff, puff, puffing away on their cigareets. I have to smile. Surely they know Kools cause cancer. Maybe they don’t believe it. Maybe they think they’ll beat the statistics. I can [...]
Continue reading...Does Productivity Hurt the Gospel?
22 September 2009
Sometimes I wonder if our culture of efficiency is hurting me spiritually. I love to be productive. I like to read blogs that have posts titled “6 Ways to Get Everything Done” or “The Ultimate Productivity Guide”. And don’t get me started on the book “Getting Things Done”. Just thinking about GTD makes my lips [...]
Continue reading...How Do You Treat the Deli Guy?
2 September 2009
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior (Titus 2.9-10). Does it matter if I’m kind to the guy behind the deli counter? Do I [...]
Continue reading...The Power of Gospel Preaching
29 July 2009
An overlooked evangelism opportunity is inviting people to church, for Christ’s power is present when his people gather (see Monday’s post). Another reason to invite people to church is that God has designed preaching as a means of salvation. …you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and [...]
Continue reading...Find People Interesting
15 July 2009
In Finally Alive, John Piper’s great recent book about the new birth, he says, “Be encouraged that simply finding people interesting and caring about them is a beautiful pathway into their heart. Evangelism gets a bad reputation when we are not really interested in people and don’t seem to care about them.” Another way of [...]
Continue reading...The Great Reversal
7 July 2009
Things start to go backwards when Jesus gets involved. If you read the Old Testament you’ll notice that the unclean always infects the clean. Not the other way around. If a clean person touches a carcass or eats an unclean animal, they’re unclean. If they touch an unclean person, they’re unclean. If they commit adultery, [...]
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23 March 2010
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