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Church of __________?

Let’s face it, we throw around the word “church” a lot. Drive down the street, and you’ll see a “First Church of the Nazarene.” Drive a little further and you’ll see a “First Baptist Church.” And while there’s a lot of biblical precedent for that name, in reality, the name of “Church” might not accurately …

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The Beginning of Repentance

We all will sin; let’s just get that on the table right now (Rom. 3:23). But after you’ve sinned, then what do you do? Do we try to explain away our sin by blaming it on someone else (Gen. 3)? Do we try to convince God (and ourselves) that we actually did do what we …

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Ashley Madison’s World

A prominent billboard in downtown Dallas used to relay the following message: “Life is short; have an affair.” If that seems shocking to you, that’s because the site itself is shocking. Ashley Madison, one of the largest internet “relationship” sites on the internet, provides a platform for married people to meet other married people for …

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Are You a Prophet?

Through the last several months as we’ve been studying the minor prophets, I think most of us have come to respect them. Standing up in the face of an onslaught, speaking words of repentance, and more often than not, pronouncing a judgment on wickedness that would ultimately end with God’s wrath coming down on His …

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Adam or Eve

When is a sin a sin? To many, the question may seem trivial: “Well, obviously, a sin becomes a sin when a sinner does something sinful.” Duh. I would agree with that. But the hard part is not in naming the particular sins – Romans 1:28-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and Revelation 21:8 do that pretty …

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A Sight to Behold

 Peter, James, and John were important apostles to Jesus, and they were singled out to accompany Him at several points. They were with Him at the garden of Gethsemane (Matt.26), the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5:21-42), and, in Matthew 17, at the transfiguration. It is easy for us to simply take this last story …

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A Law for Every Thought

“What we need to do is get code 318 passed this week, but OBAAAAAMA won’t stand for it. Thinks it’s too ‘Christiany’ and imposes on people’s rights,” bellows out one older man at a neighborhood coffee shop. “Shame too. If only we had that law in place, all these hooligans would straighten up, and the …

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Older Brother Theology

Without a doubt, one of Jesus’ greatest parables (or at least most well-known) would be the one found in Luke 15 about the Prodigal Son. We love putting ourselves in the shoes of the one that departed and has found their way home after a long and soul-sucking sojourn, only to have the father that …

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Do You Agree With John Chau?

A couple of weeks ago, an American-born missionary named John Chau was killed while attempting to bring the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to a remote location East of India named North Sentinel Island. The Sentinelese, as they are known, are fiercely protective of their lands and are aggressively resistant to any kind of contact …

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Every Church Needs a Dorcas

Tucked away at the back of Saul’s conversion story in Acts 9 is a little story about a woman named Dorcas (or Tabitha, if you prefer that name – I don’t). You would think that a woman who commands such a significant portion of Scriptural real estate in a pivotal section in the Bible would …

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