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You’re Poetry in Motion
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. -Ephesians 2:10 When Paul refers to us as His workmanship, the word he...
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Getting the Sound Bite Right
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a picture of silver.” -Proverbs 25:11 My wife gets all the breaks. She’s warm and inviting, a woman who extends herself easily, and folks warm up to her...
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Who Moved?
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. – Jude 1:21 The first time I read this commandment of Jude’s it scared me. I thought, “Well, I...
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Calamity in the Congregation
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. -Proverbs 5:14 I was dumb, I got dumber, I’m the dumberest. At least that’s what the man of Proverbs 5 seems to be saying. His...
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Debriefing Canaan
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against...
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How Could He?
Last week a 21 year old man from my town was arrested while trying to leave the country to join ISIS. He told a friend that fighting with the Islamic terrorist group would be a “golden opportunity,”...
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“You Allowed This. Why”?
Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another? – Matthew 11:3 For me, one of the greatest challenges of the Faith is knowing that my God who is just and good allows horrible things to happen....
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Of Pastors and Potshots
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the...
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No Fighting Not Allowed
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage.” ― William Shakespeare, Henry V...
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Handle with Care
There has been grave error. I do not mean so much error of doctrine as error of emphasis. A.W. Tozer I won’t be too quick to say how much I love the truth. Sometimes I loathe it. And I’m not alone in...
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Thanksgiving by Thinking
“Bless the Lord oh my soul, and forget not all His benefits.” (Psalm 103:2) I’ve never been a pro at the “feeling” thing. I’m as emotional as anyone, for sure, but my feelings come when they’re ready,...
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Growing Up, Still
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” -I Corinthians 3:2 Sometimes I think I’m getting it backwards. The evidence of my...
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Deeds Above Creeds
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. –James 1:22 Most of my Christian life, I’ve assumed being “well grounded” meant the same as being “well taught.” This...
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When “My Bad” Isn’t Enough
Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.” -Erwin W. Lutzer Yesterday, Australian Cardinal George Pell testified at a hearing in Rome about the longstanding...
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Beautifully Bent
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” ― Charles Dickens,...
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Death by Gratitude
I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice — –Romans 12:1 This morning I got a specific, powerful answer to prayer. It doesn’t matter so...
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It’s a Worm-derful Life
“But I am a worm —“ –Psalm 22:6 “If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” –Hebrews 10:38 There’s humility, which God loves, then there’s cringing, which He doesn’t. The humble...
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Of Morsels and Birthrights
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected:...
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My Move
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. – Jude 1:21 At first glance Jude’s commandment here is unsettling. If I’m to “keep myself” in God’s...
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Trembling
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson Divided as ever, Americans are in the edge of their seats cheering and booing as both...
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