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18 mins read|09/16/22Hope is found precisely while we’re dead.
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8 mins read|11/01/21What do Habakkuk and Israel have? Nothing but the word of God. Nothing but the promise of God. Nothing but God himself.
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1 min|10/28/20The first section of Psalm 44 teaches about the life of the redeemed.
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13 mins read|09/07/20From the junkyard of my past, I assembled the scrap metal of self-preservation, self-righteousness, and unalloyed selfishness, to weld together a hollow divinity. In its core, I stuffed myself: a god without divinity, offering forgiveness with conditions, to sinners without love.
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9 mins read|07/28/20There is a repentance that is anti-repentance, for it clings tightly to the sin over which it sorrows, because in that sorrow is its consolation. In this warped spiritual scheme, our anguish is atonement; shame is our absolution; tears are our baptism. We feel better knowing how bad we feel about our wrongs. But there is a much better way.
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10 mins read|05/13/20Far from being a Savior, the god of Unchristianity is a coach who whips us into moral shape, inspires us to be better people, serves as our example. The unspoken goal is to be so virtuous and free of sin that we don’t need Jesus anymore. The transaction is complete. Jesus is unemployed.
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1 min|08/02/19God puts some interesting laws in place regarding the first year of marriage, loaning money, kidnapping, and skin conditions.
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11 mins read|07/18/19In this religious Sodom, we had a Jesus with the heart of Moses whose gospel was a new and improved law.
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9 mins read|03/14/19Pastors are built from the same stuff as everyone else. That’s good, and that’s bad.
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11 mins read|03/13/19I finally climbed all 109 mountains. My journey began out of desperation, fueled by anger, fear, resentment.
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12 mins read|01/28/19Just as we believe ourselves to be forgiven because God sees us in Christ, so to forgive others is to see them as God sees them in Christ. To forgive, in other words, is to put God’s eyes in our eyes and our eyes in God’s eyes.
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