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Bad Medicine
The pain in my tooth was murderous. I was reduced to a whimpering, whining child, and if you’ve ever had serious dental trouble you know exactly what I mean. My back lower molar was on fire from...
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Doubt
“Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?” – Matthew 11:3 John the Baptist, full of the Holy Spirit from the womb (Luke 1:15) and forerunner to the Messiah...
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The Dark Plunge
“— a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan sent to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.” - I Corinthians 12: 7 No one knows for certain what Paul’s thorn was, but I know...
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The Imperfect Conqueror
I get it when I read that God loves me. Forgives me, too, which is more of a plus than I’ll ever realize. The question haunting me just about every day is, But does that mean He’s for me? To what...
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Fred Phelps: The Symptom of our Sickness
“I’ll explain, and I’ll be sure to use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand. You wart-hog-faced-buffoon!” - The Princess Bride Buffoons have their place, but they shouldn’t. They...
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Who’s Counting?
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. -Psalm 32:2 I am amazed at the God who forgets. My old friend Randall Slack just did a post on that very subject – “The God Who Forgets”...
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A Welcome Divergence
My son and I caught a screening of the new Neil Burger film Divergent yesterday, and while I can’t say I was blown away, I did like it enough to recommend it, both for the quality of the film itself,...
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“It Contains Adult Language —”
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. -Ephesians 4:29 We get warnings before watching...
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The Same-Sex Wedding Invitation Debate
Lots of buzz lately about whether or not a Christian should attend a same-sex wedding ceremony. And as buzz goes, this one’s awfully relevant, as more and more believers are facing this practical,...
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Assessing “God and the Gay Christian”– Part One of Five
Why Bother? Today’s church is being asked – pressured, really – to follow the culture’s lead, and the culture is leading towards wholesale approval of homosexuality. So Matthew Vine’s new book God and...
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Assessing Matthew Vines’“God and the Gay Christian” Part III – Jesus and...
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. -Dean Koontz, Forever Od When you love someone, you hope...
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Assessing Matthew Vines “God and the Gay Christian” Pt. VII
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’ The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.” -CS Lewis...
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You Said It
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.” ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls You’re leaving a trail. It goes all the way...
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Sinner and a Movie
With movies like God’s Not Dead, Heaven is for Real and Noah dominating our conversations about the Bible and the box office, one quiet little film has, I think, slipped past a lot of folk’s radars....
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At What Cost?
“ — neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.” - II Sam 24:24 “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself...
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Good Debate on ‘God and the Gay Christian’ this AM on Moody Radio
Those of you who followed my series on Matthew Vine’s book God and the Gay Christian will be interested to know that Matthew and my friend Dr. Michael Brown had an informal debate this morning on Moody...
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Lord of My Meltdowns
“Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.”-Psalm 139:23 Renee and I were reading Psalm 139 this morning when something in the New King James version caught my eye. I’ve known...
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Remembering Freedoms
Hoping you’re having a wonderful, blessed celebration of the many freedoms we’ve been blessed with. Renee and I are enjoying, right along with you, a day long fest of friendship, crazy fun and lots of...
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Lessons from the Apes
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes seems to be the current rage, topping box office records and offering an impressive array of special effects, costuming and makeup. We saw it last night, and I’d say its...
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The Greater Condemnation
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. - James 3:1 James didn’t write a very nice book. In fact, apart from Proverbs, I think his epistle’s the...
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