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14 mins read|03/30/24The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
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10 mins read|11/22/21Throughout the Scriptures, God puts "signs" or "seals" upon people. Often these are placed upon the forehead. How do all these connected stories take us from the mark of Cain, to the Exodus, to the cross, and finally to baptism?
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11 mins read|01/03/20Is there ever a time when someone needs to be re-baptized? Not if we believe that God is the one who does the baptizing.
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13 mins read|12/10/19In the wilderness, God reaches down to show us that the only life is in one place: where there is water.
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10 mins read|11/20/19The kingdom of God is not a place, a thing, a concept, a philosophy, a spiritual force, or a state of being. The kingdom of God is a person.
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11 mins read|08/28/19As we do in daily life, so we have done in our reading of the Bible: we have placed ourselves at the center, and Christ at the periphery.
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13 mins read|04/15/19When Lamech named his newborn son Noah—which means “rest”—he said, “This one shall give us comfort from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed”
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13 mins read|01/17/19Some things, once they are deemed disgusting or contaminated, permanently carry that quality with them. These things are even thought to be “contagious,” negatively affecting whatever they come into contact with.
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11 mins read|01/11/19When people are baptized, time is transcended. They go back to the Jordan and the Jordan comes forward to them. In a single splash, or a single dunk, they enter the war.
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12 mins read|10/07/18In Christ, God’s Son, yesterday, today, and tomorrow all collapse into one. He holds in himself everything from the beginning to the end of the world.
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7 mins read|01/29/17A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.
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83 mins read|01/03/17Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
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