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9 mins read|08/01/18When those who are serving joyfully and willingly are instead encouraged to complain that they are carrying the load for the rest of the body, all hope is lost.
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13 mins read|07/31/18Jesus dies for the sin of the world. That means he dies for the person who disappoints us. He shed His blood for the person who doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved.
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19 mins read|07/23/18No matter which side, it’s easy for all of us to build Bible verses into grenades aimed at obliterating the political other.
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11 mins read|07/22/18Jesus comes to pop our bubbles of pride, implode our towers of vanity, expose our arrogant adulting ways, and brings us down, down, down. Down to his level, which is the level of crucifixion.
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13 mins read|04/23/18We have to endure darkness before we’re ready for the light again. God is doing what he does best: he’s conforming us to his Son, to Jesus, who was buried in the darkness and rose again into the light on Easter.
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8 mins read|03/03/18Give us eyes to see the face of Jesus in that little child wriggling in front of us, tugging at his mom’s sleeve, wanting a drink of water.
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7 mins read|02/17/18A good place to start is to work hard at loving those no one else seems to love. I can’t think of a more Christ-like action.
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9 mins read|02/06/18On episode FORTY-FIVE of Let the Bird Fly! the guys (sans Ben) get together to discuss C.S. Lewis’ book The Four Loves.
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10 mins read|02/04/18Jesus came to lay down his life for us. He didn’t come to slip 6’ leashes on the necks of his canine followers. He came to set us free.
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12 mins read|01/30/18When we talk about love then, let us not talk about ourselves.
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8 mins read|01/28/18We follow the example of creation and her Creator, wasting our love quite prodigally in fulfilling our callings, whether we’re thanked or spurned, applauded or ignored.
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2 mins read|12/15/17After spending two episodes dealing with the apparent tension between justification and good works we dedicate another installment to the doctrine of vocation.
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