The Love of Money
Paul commands Christians to avoid conforming to worldly patterns. Instead, he tells us to be transformed by the renewal of our minds...
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Feb 33 min read
The Burden of Debt and the Spiritual Freedom of Generosity.
The cause of America’s economic woes is not the result solely of political mismanagement. More than anything else, it is the result of...
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Jan 272 min read
Fallow Ground
The industrial revolution that transformed the world and brought us much good also forced out of us troves of wisdom that lived in the...
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Jan 203 min read
Streams and Trees and You
In his epistle, the apostle James seems to burden us with a command to action. He directs us to be doers of God’s word and not just...
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Jan 133 min read
It's All Greek to Me
Translation is the science and the art of taking the ideas, the concepts, and the meanings trapped in the words of one language and...
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Jan 63 min read
Wielding the Sword
The writer of Hebrews likens the Word of God to a sharp double edged sword that is able to divide between soul and spirit, joints and...
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Dec 23, 20232 min read
Light is the Joy of Wise Men
Wise men see value in light, and so they pursue it as it leads them to wisdom, humility, and great joy. Evil men, however, see value in...
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Dec 15, 20233 min read
The Prince of Peace
If you go out and survey a bunch of people on the street and ask them to define for you the term “peace,” most will say that it means to...
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Dec 9, 20233 min read
Short Term Missions and Its Critics
One of the criticisms of American evangelical short term missionary work is that it doesn’t focus enough on Jesus, but instead is too...
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Dec 2, 20232 min read
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
God frequently chooses the small to defeat the great. When Paul was encouraging the Christians at Corinth with his first letter to them,...
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Nov 22, 20232 min read
Human Beings and Their Discontents
All human problems sprout from poor spiritual soil. In fact, barring biological or developmental weaknesses, along with accidents of...
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Nov 11, 20232 min read
Mirages, Hooks, and Temptations
Temptation is a mirage. It is a flickering and inviting illusion of water that beckons you off of a brutal desert path and calls you to...
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Nov 2, 20232 min read
Don't be an American Idol
Paul teaches the church at Corinth that bad company corrupts good character (1 Corinthians 15:33). What he means in that verse is that...
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Oct 28, 20232 min read
God's Unfailing Love is Better Than Life
David wrote Psalm 63 when he was fleeing in the wilderness – either during the time he fled from Saul, or the time he fled from his son,...
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Oct 21, 20232 min read
Confidence in the Light of the Lord
In Psalm 119:105, the psalmist declares that the word of God is a lamp unto his feet and a light on his path. In this metaphor he...
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Oct 14, 20233 min read
The Sovereignty of God in Our Suffering
No one seeks suffering and affliction. In fact, as a general rule, wise people try to avoid it. But in a fallen, broken, evil and dark...
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Oct 7, 20233 min read
Guarding the Way of Life
The bible says that humans were made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). At some level this remarkable statement means that we were...
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Sep 30, 20232 min read
Planting Trees and Producing Fruit
Proverbs 11:30 (ESV) says that “the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.” On its face, this...
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Sep 23, 20233 min read
The Relationship Between Faith and Obedience
While they are two separate elements, obedience and faith are indivisibly entwined with one another. It is difficult to obey an authority...
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Sep 14, 20233 min read
As the Deer Pants for Water
Psalm 42 is a Maskil song. We don’t really know what the word “Maskil” means, but many Hebrew scholars believe that it is a musical word...
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