Because our Savior took on human flesh, he knew we would need encouragement. And so, he provided it by holding up flawed believers as the great cloud of witnesses. If they can be called people of faith, so can we.
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Because Jesus is our high priest, because we can draw near to God, because we believe, because he is faithful, so shall we endure and strive to obey.
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The Lord judges all the thoughts and intentions of our hearts. Yet, he still loves us. Nothing about his passion for us changes.
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Whenever we open our mouths, we’re on stage. We will give an account to God for every word. As those who love Christ, how can we grow in the area of right speech?
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One of the most difficult challenges we face as writers, speakers, and human beings is to say what we mean, to convey our message clearly and without any confusion or misrepresentation.
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My study through Isaiah these past two years challenges my comfortable theology. I now understand so much more about the heart of God. We see it clearly in the radical statements Jesus made, such as his terrifying parable of the …
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All of us have felt shame. We may have also been the recipients of shaming. One of the glorious blessings of the Christian life is that our faith deals with shame in a healing and redemptive way. Jesus’ work on …
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The past six months have brought a whirlwind of change and physical trauma. I don’t know how I’ve gotten through it, but for the grace of God. In the days when I can’t even focus my mind to pray, the …
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In a few short weeks, we must vote. There are no good options. Why would there be when we expect mere mortals to fill the shoes only One can adequately fill? Until Jesus returns, we will be perennially disappointed in …
Continue Reading →Paul wrote of the Olympic competitions: “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable” (1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV). Since I am an Olympics junkie, it is with great delight …
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