Christianity
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Okay, I know I’m going to fire up some of my readers with this one but God has put it on my mind for the past few days so here goes! Recently, I’ve run across a few people who have decided to leave Christianity. There are a variety of specific reason that include: Now let
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I feel silly even having to write this, but you understand that all the antisemitism stuff is Satan’s spiritual war against God’s people, right? Think about it, why would one people group that has existed for more than 3,500 years constantly be under attack by pretty much everyone throughout history? Why have their always been
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Every Tuesday night I preach at a United Gospel Mission (UGM) mens transitional housing unit where there are about 40 guys who have been released from prison within the past two years. I’ve been doing this for about eight years now and it’s a really interesting group to work with. About a third to half
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Most of you know that I love to scroll social media to see what folks are thinking. After the Super Bowl I noticed a ton of Christians responding to the “He Gets Us” ads that played during the game. Unsurprising all the Christians responding to the ad had nothing but negative reviews. If you didn’t
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One of the most common criticisms of Christianity is that people see it as intolerant. From Jesus being the only way to the Father to our rejection of what the Bible calls sin, those outside the faith (and even many inside the faith) reject orthodox Christianity because it seems so narrow-minded. I want to take
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Now that we all are preparing for the New Year I wanted to share one of my favorite scripture verses and how I think it may help all of us in 2014. Psalms 46:10 says, “Be still and know I am God.” It’s a simple little verse that
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When I was growing up all I wanted to be was normal. With my dad in and out of jail and my mother paralyzed by Multiple Sclerosis and living in a nursing home my life was anything but normal. I always felt self-conscious around others, doing my best to put on a front of “normal”
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If you’re like me just saying the word reminds you of all the times people broke your trust and you start to raise your shields to defend yourself from whatever comes after that word! I want to talk about trust today, but I want to do it with our defense mechanisms turned off so we
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Yes it’s true; I talk to myself. My wife gives me a hard time because I’ll be in the shower or just sitting around talking quietly to myself about stuff. Sometimes it’s practicing something I’ll say to someone, making sure my responses are appropriate. Other times I’m just chewing on a problem. I think that
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I spend a lot of time talking about how God can heal brokenness in people’s lives. Heck I wrote an entire book on it! But there is one part of the book that is perhaps the most difficult to accept and that’s when God decides not to heal you for reasons only He knows and
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