Tag: Jesus Christ
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Take Your Medicine
What’s the biggest problem in your life? If you had a guarantee— an absolute 100% guarantee— that following a certain course of action would eliminate your problem after a year, but that following that course of action for a year would be pretty miserable, would you do it? Would you take the medicine?
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Carrying On When We Don’t Understand
We can always think of some tragedy horrible enough that it just doesn’t seem fair for God to allow Satan to take it that far.
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Persecution
Whether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.
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Walls Of Protection
When the Bible uses the wall-of-protection metaphor, it’s talking about defenses against Satan and his arrows. Now there’s someone who never approaches with any good intent, yet he’s so good at giving the appearance of an ally.
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Finding Things In God’s Word
Even though Jesus said, “seek and you will find,” it is possible to search the scriptures and not find eternal life.
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Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge
The apostle Paul made the point over and over in the book of First Corinthians that we should not be prideful about our knowledge. If I have knowledge but not love, “I am nothing,” (13:2). Love is much more important because it edifies, whereas knowledge puffs up (8:1). But is this to say that knowledge…
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When Is It Okay To Give Up?
Sometimes life feels like a long drawn-out game that’s not much fun anymore. Sometimes we feel like saying, “I give up!”
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O You Of Little Faith
Is a small faith okay or isn’t it? I’ve written in the past about how God can take faith as small as a mustard seed and make it grow (Matthew 17:20). We don’t have to be super strong before God will use us. On the other hand, four times in the book of Matthew, Jesus…
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Faith As A Mustard Seed
With predators you don’t have to win; you just have to be more trouble than you’re worth.
Walk Worthy 