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Thoughts on Fleecing God
Our Father wants us to grow up into the deep likeness of his son, Jesus, anchored in his Word, animated by his Spirit, abiding in his presence, attached to his friends and activated in his Kingdom.
How to Know If You Are Doing Something Right
Anytime anyone awakens from sleep and rises up to follow Jesus beyond the cozy confines of domesticated religion, they must be encouraged; for the armies of hell will come against that person.
Aspiring to Tolerance and Inclusivity or Full of Grace and Truth?
It takes enormous courage to tear down our altars to the lesser gods and to build a proper altar to the Lord your God.
The Story of Two Altars
It takes enormous courage to tear down our altars to the lesser gods and to build a proper altar to the Lord your God.
Revolution Begins with Reform at the Home Office
We want God to comfort us in our problematic life. In this frame, faith becomes more escape than engagement.
Change of Life Begins with Change of Heart
A change of life only begins with a change of heart.
Unlearning Strengths. Embracing Weaknesses.
What if our deepest worth to God is actually not connected to our strengths but to our weaknesses?
From the Back Row of the Balcony to the Front at the Altar
God has a plan all right-- but it is not for your life. It's just the opposite. Your life is for his plan.
Why It Will Take Courage To Become an Encourager
An encourager must learn to see others as God sees them and to persist in making that vision personally and particularly known.
The Movement from Timidity to Temerity
Our God is on a mission to encourage us, not so much because we are needy of encouragement but because we have a MASSIVE MISSION in front of us.
The Journey from Me to We and Why it Matters
Sin, in its deepest essence, is the condition of an unbelieving heart and an unbelieving or untrusting heart inevitably becomes a hardened heart.
On the Difference Between Believing in God and Believing God
Sin, in its deepest essence, is the condition of an unbelieving heart and an unbelieving or untrusting heart inevitably becomes a hardened heart.
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
Sin, in its deepest essence, is the condition of an unbelieving heart and an unbelieving or untrusting heart inevitably becomes a hardened heart.
Getting Beyond our Bumper Sticker Theology
The ongoing Holy Spirit chemotherapy for the deceitful sin cancer of an unbelieving heart is thick encouragement.
Encourage One Another Daily, as Long as It Is Called Today
To "encourage" in the biblical sense of the term, is to stand in the stead and agency of Jesus, participating in the work of the Holy Spirit, to minister grace to human beings at the level of their inner person.
Profound Love for Others (Devoted Part 5)
In a day and time when relationships are strained by fear and suspicion, holy love drives us out into the widening gaps.
Layers of Love (Devoted Part 4)
Love not only covered our sins but transformed our hearts.
From Position to Posture (Devoted Part 3)
The cup Jesus drank is not a crown or a throne. It was a cross and a yoke.