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14 mins read|10/04/16There was another criminal next to Christ the day he died. He was aware of who Jesus was, and why he was there.
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7 mins read|08/17/16In happiness, we dare never forget that it is Christ, and Christ alone, who has restored our joy.
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11 mins read|06/10/16I became like God’s child David, whom the Lord pardoned of his adultery and murder. I became like Noah, Abraham, Judah, Aaron, Gideon, and so many more wayward children.
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12 mins read|03/31/16If you’ve been in church long enough, you might have seen the worst of someone’s unrepentant sin get them kicked out, cast out, excommunicated or “handed over to Satan so their flesh might die and their soul might live.”
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8 mins read|03/01/16We spend the first nine months of our lives in utter darkness. There are no tiny fluorescent bulbs beaming from the ceiling of the womb, no fetal flashlights, not even a pinprick of illumination.
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10 mins read|02/21/16We hang on to our sins not despite the fact that they hurt, but precisely because they do hurt. We need to hurt, to fret over them, to cry over them, to make amends over them, because by doing so, we will grease the wheels of God’s forgiveness.
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7 mins read|02/08/16What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.
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9 mins read|02/02/16When God is at work, oftentimes the best activity is non-activity, the best speech is non-speech. Sometimes God wants us to shut up.
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8 mins read|01/23/16As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.
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7 mins read|01/05/16I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
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14 mins read|01/02/16What is it about David’s life, and this psalm, that make this so fitting a place to utter this dire pronouncement of humanity’s corruption?
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13 mins read|12/28/15Isn’t it strange how the Jesus we end up with bears such a striking resemblance to ourselves? Our Jesus thinks as we do, acts as we act, speaks as we speak.
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