Without the Friendship of Barnabas, No Paul
When Paul was still calling himself Saul, and before he met Jesus, he was a hater of Christians and an accomplice to murder. One of the...
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Jan 27, 20222 min read
Love is a Freaky Word
Love is a freaky word. It represents a weird quirk of human language in that it occupies the status of both noun and verb. Love is both...
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Jan 18, 20223 min read
Supernatural Enemies and Supernatural Armor
You may think that you are at war with your boss, or your sibling, or your neighbor, or even a political party. But you really aren’t....
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Jan 6, 20222 min read
A Deep and Bright Purpose of Marriage
Right after Jesus gifts us with the Beatitudes from his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-11) and shows us the many counterintuitive ways...
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Dec 30, 20212 min read
Walking With God. Walking Like God.
Paul gives us an impossible theological command in Ephesians 5. He prepares us for that command in chapter four, where he tells us to...
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Dec 16, 20212 min read
The Gifted People & Their Gifts
When we say that someone is gifted, we mean so much more than that such person has been given trivial gifts intended for frivolous...
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Dec 9, 20212 min read
Spiritual Maturity
You know a ripe fruit when you see it. It glows or shines with a vibrant color. It looks delicious, plump, ample, and desirable. A ripe...
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Dec 2, 20212 min read
Walking the Walk
“You’ve been in the military,” I remember the man saying to me as we briefly conversed. I had never met him prior to our convergence....
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Nov 18, 20212 min read
God’s Awesome Power
God’s awesome power overtly displays itself in his creations. The mountains, the rivers, the oceans, the heights, the depths, and all the...
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Nov 11, 20212 min read
The Walking Dead Don’t Feel Anything
A dead body doesn’t feel anything. It’s wrapped in darkness, and separated from light and life. It rots away, like a desert parched from...
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Nov 4, 20212 min read
Out of Many, One
E Pluribus Unum is the unofficial motto of the United States. The eagle of the Great Seal of the United States holds a banner with that...
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Oct 28, 20212 min read
Marked by the Spirit and Guaranteed for the Inheritance
The moment you believe the truth of the gospel you gain in your identity. In that instant, God identifies you as his own. Part of your...
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Oct 21, 20212 min read
Chosen to be Holy
In his letter to the church at Ephesus, Paul opened a gigantic controversial can of worms when he wrote to them declaring that before the...
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Oct 14, 20212 min read
Pausing in the Waves for Sovereignty
Image by Pexels from Pixabay In our world, a relentless onslaught of troubles and challenges slow us down, beat us up, and leave us...
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Oct 7, 20212 min read
Double Minded and Unstable
If you have ever struggled with making an important decision, then you have probably experienced what the bible refers to as...
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Sep 30, 20212 min read
The Conquering of Death
Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay There is one sense in which death is the enemy of Christians. It entered the world with...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
The Mask of a Spy, and the Heart of a Loyal Servant
Walled away from the beauty of Colorado’s striking blue skies and cool crisp air, Robert Hanssen ticks out the rest of his life in a...
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Sep 16, 20212 min read
A Good Servant Rejects Shame
Shame is a painful emotion. It is usually associated with embarrassment or a feeling of guilt for something that we have genuinely done...
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Sep 9, 20212 min read
Love, Suffering, and Service
Image by Jeff Jacobs from Pixabay Because true love compels a servant to suffer, suffering is the truest test of a servant. A husband who...
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Sep 2, 20212 min read
Serving Where Needed
The wife of one of my friends models servanthood very well. I noticed this at a dinner we shared several years ago. As we all conversed...
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