Sunday, July 26, 2015

The "ambassador" model of evangelism

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We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be recon...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Why Holiness is an important idea

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If we discard the idea of the holy, there is nothing left but the secular. Without a sense of the holy, a church has nothing left but the wo...
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Footsteps of God

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It was an ancient teaching in Israel, that we are to walk after God -- that is, follow him; the law and the covenants were portrayed as wal...
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Sunday, July 05, 2015

On earth as in heaven

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We Christians pray it daily, for God's will to be done on earth as in heaven. The connection between earth and heaven is seen many times...
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Resisting Hate-bait: Guarding against the tendency to dehumanize "the enemy"

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I've seen it -- and have been appalled by it -- in political rhetoric, where opponents are said to "slither" (snakes aren'...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Parallel parables: wheat/weeds, and unmerciful servant

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The kingdom of heaven is like ... Jesus tells us that the kingdom of heaven is like someone who planted good seed, but found something els...
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Sunday, June 14, 2015

How marriage became a piece of paper, and what Christians could do to strengthen it

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As my children get closer to the age where they might, some day, marry, I think about some of the objections I hear to marriage from their g...
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