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Conversations on Same-Sex Marriage
It was a busy week on social media, and I got lost in a number of conversations sparked by the topic du jour. Many profiles had turned pink and red in the manner shrewdly concocted by Human Rights...
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The church had better wake up. In last year's post on this topic, I noted:This sin is not going away. In fact, this year someone is making $100 billion by victimizing 30,000 of us every second and...
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Meaningless! Ecclesiastes vs. My Permanent Mid-Life Crisis
If you read this blog regularly, you probably know my story. That is, my journey from death to life in Christ.So it won't surprise you to learn that I’m new to reading the Bible. This means I'd never...
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The Sinner's Prayer, Reprise (aka, Jailer's New Gig)
Thanks to the good offices of my friend Karla, I have just debuted my first post over at Live58, where they have reprised The Sinner's Prayer: Spiritual Abortion?", which I first published on this blog...
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Memorial Day: Greater Love Hath No Man
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (quoting Shakespeare): "What a piece of work is man, in form and movement how express and admirable. In action how like an angel." Sergeant Buster Kilrain: Well, if...
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Whose Revival Is It?
News flash: Something is wrong with the church!Oh, wait ... in a fallen world, something is always wrong with the church. Yes, even during the time of Christ ... of the Apostles ... of Luther and...
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Church-Planting Movements: Multigenerational Discipleship or Multilevel...
A reader takes issue with my post, "Jesus Flunks Evangelism", which was just republished by Live58:Very good points, and a lesson to take to heart, but terrible title, a bad trend of crude, false...
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Here I Am (Again), Lord ... Now What?
Paying attention to where the circles intersect helps us understand how He is arranging the terms of our service. The dashed lines around the circles remind us that our understanding of our abilities...
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Does God Want Me to Forgive Myself?
So, then what?Quick, how many books, sermons, Bible studies, blogs, and pithy social-network posts revolve around the concept of self-forgiveness? Any guesses? A quick Google search revealed...
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The Trayvon Factor: Why the Church Divides over Race
It is not alarming or surprising that the various members of the Body of Christ can come to different conclusions about the what outcome of a criminal trial in Florida should have been. Trials are...
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Tebow's Philippine Hospital Update
I first wrote about the orthopedic children's hospital Tim Tebow is building with CURE International in Davao City, Philippines back in November 2011. At the time the building was still in the...
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Not the Greatest Love of All: Whitney Houston and the False Gospel of Self-Love
The greatest love of allGospel singer ... and false gospel singeris easy to achievelearning to love yourselfis the greatest love of all. -- Whitney Houston, 1986 If you don’t love yourself in a...
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Sunday Morning Concert: Rise of the Praise Team
You walk into the sanctuary and take your seat, and find yourself greeted by a fresh, young face at a microphone up front. He smiles broadly and informs you that, "This is the day that the LORD has...
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Christmas is not worth fighting a "war" over
Merry Christmas. There, I said it. Now, let's get on with getting over ourselves, shall we? Because frankly, if there is a "War on Christmas", its genius is not that it undermines the foundations of...
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Those Who Mourn
Recently I have been blessed and challenged through a series of conversations with someone who is not a Christian, but who has patiently and attentively heard my testimony about Jesus, and why I follow...
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Our True and Proper Worship
This blog has had much to say on the topic of corporate worship. Some of these posts have sparked a degree of consternation among the brethren, for many of whom the new, "contemporary" conventions...
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The Foremost of Sinners
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the...
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Who am I? Identity and Idolatry
Look around you and you will see a world in search of identity. Each of us carries within us a fundamental need to have significance in the universe ... some existential impact greater than the...
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Because Slavery is Not Over
Hanh was 17 when she was kidnapped to China. Invited by a classmate to a nearby town to shop, she was sold by her “friend” to a sex trafficker. For the next 6 months she was trapped in the hell of an...
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The Relevance of Strangers and Exiles
This week, the headlines shouted and celebrated another high-profile example of the American church bending to accommodate the values of our prevailing culture. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), whose...
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Desiring to Justify Myself
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” -- Luke 10:29It is easy to scoff at the arrogant lawyer who prompted Jesus' parable about the Good Samaritan, this insolent...
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Culture, Counter-Culture, and the Way of the Cross
Through the years on this blog, I have occasionally touched on the hot-button issue of sexual orientation. Today I find myself increasingly reluctant to do so, because the topic has become such a...
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Of Whom I am the Worst
There is a fairly simple answer to the question of why Christians can be so judgmental. Christians are people, people are sinners, and judgmentalism is a sin--perhaps one of the most universal of all...
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"Not Long I Think. He is So Afraid. He Needs Jesus."
When I was in middle school, my best friend Stephen had a little dog named BJ, who was about the size of a loaf of bread. One day while we were running around the house, BJ was yapping at my heels. I...
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Australia Strikes Back Against Beijing’s Influence Campaign
G’day, this is your intrepid American Canary reporting from the Coal Mine Down Under.While Americans are trying to make up their minds about the little-league Russian interference in its recent...
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