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14 mins read|07/08/19“I love you” is great, as long as whatever commitment I may or may not be intimating is mutually beneficial and causes the least amount of emotional strain to me.
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9 mins read|03/06/19All this disciplined living is to be done in freedom.
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7 mins read|12/18/18The age of grace has dawned, the time in which all things will be made new.
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10 mins read|12/05/18As the church gathers in worship, however, different words reverberate in readings, hymns, and homilies. These words beckon us to get dirty.
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11 mins read|11/01/18Thank God for heroes: they inspire us to be better, to help others, to live and work for the good of our race. And thank God for villains, too: they incarnate our shadow side, our nocturnal soul, the dragon within us that must incessantly have its throat slit on the altar of repentance.
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9 mins read|10/08/18What we notice less often is that this same fear wonders about both the efficacy of the Gospel and the Law.
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13 mins read|09/25/18The Christian sees himself or herself as one just as guilty as the rest of the world. But we see ourselves not just as what’s wrong with the world, but in the One by whom the world has been redeemed.
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12 mins read|08/27/18When I hear the word “repentance” my mind quickly goes to those old terror inducing Chick Tracts.
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11 mins read|08/19/18Don’t say you’re beyond hope, for there is not one beyond God. Don’t say you’ve done too much evil, for there is no wrong bigger than God’s heart of forgiveness.
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17 mins read|08/13/18Too often, we equate “repent” as the final warning to stop a particular sin before God ceases to love you and sends you to hell for your evil deeds.
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10 mins read|07/08/18When we imagine we’re living an evil-shunning, virtue-practicing, morally superior Christian life, the problem is not that our halos are too small, but that our heads are too big.
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6 mins read|06/20/18Jesus is in the business of proclaiming such a beautiful redundancy.
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