The Reason for Lingering Spiritual Immaturity
Are you exasperated by the lack of growth in your life? In the lives of others? Maybe it's not a content issue. Maybe it's that they need a shepherd. We all need someone watching out for our soul conditions.…
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Enduring Persecution
For most of my life, I have resisted using the term persecution to describe what any Christian had to endure in the United States of America. Compared to what brothers and sisters experience around the world, we have it easy, but it is changing. It will get worse.…
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Losing Credibility One Empty Promise at a Time
Each of our reputations are defined by our level of credibility. Instead of exaggerating with empty promises, simply stay reliable with a trustworthy life.…
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Pursuing Peace
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. These words of Jesus still ring like counter-cultural absurdities in chaotic times just as they did when he first said them. But in a time of unrest, where else will this peace come from?…
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Avoiding Divorce
While divorce is permitted in the Bible, it is never promoted in the Bible. Learn what Jesus had to say about those considering dissolving a marriage union.…
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Prioritizing Purity
We live in a culture that has forgotten how to blush. The prophet Jeremiah said that about his people during his time, but I am pretty confident we can say the same thing now. As our standards slip, we find ourselves in a world cherishing sin like a virtue. …
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Lured by Lust
Adultery always begins far before the act. We must be careful what we look at and what we think about if we are to remain faithful to our commitments.…
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Offering Mercy
We have almost arrived at a new year. It's a chance for new beginnings, but if we aren't careful, we will carry 2020's issues into 2021's days. It's been quite the year for us all. In the midst of all the stress, you've probably been hurt as well. How can you find relational peace? It's time to go the 2nd mile in offering mercy.…
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If Thoughts Could Kill
Jesus taught that just because your anger may not lead to murder does not mean that your thoughts are unclassified as sin. Unaddressed anger must be confronted in our lives.…
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Helpful Hungers
Our cravings often direct our lives. Whatever we want most of all, whatever we think about most often, and whatever creates in us the deepest hunger will be the central directive in our lives. Have you ever considered how deep your hunger is for spiritual matters?…
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The Fulfillment We Need
The coming of Christ was the fulfillment of the Old Testament expectations and the requirement for our own righteousness. Jesus came from heaven so we could go to heaven.…
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Strong Meekness
I grew up in a culture that teaches young men that nice guys finish last. If you want to find your way in this world, you have to trail blaze yourself to that reality. What we now see is a society plagued by millions of people trying to get ahead of each other. It's time to go the second mile in developing strong meekness.…
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