Jesus
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I don’t have a long blog to write today, in fact most of what I’m sharing is not from me, it’s from a gospel singer named Marcus Stanley who is one of the most courageous and amazing followers of Jesus you will ever know. You see, when Dylann Roof began shooting African-American parishioners attending a
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Dear Atheist and/or Agnostic, I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately and wanted to share what’s on my mind because I think it has a significant impact on your future. For people who either don’t believe in God or don’t know if He exists you sure talk about Him a lot! Daily I can
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I spend considerable time staying up on current events, reading news and blogs, and generally trying to figure out where our country is headed. My wife is probably right that I spend too much time doing it because I can get pretty wrapped up in it. Last week the reputable Pew Research Center published a
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For Christians, today begins the crescendo of Holy Week as we celebrate Maundy Thursday – the day Jesus ate his last meal with his disciples and was later arrested in the garden of Gethsemane; Good Friday – the day Jesus was nailed to the cross, was crucified, and died; and Easter Sunday – the day
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I haven’t written anything in the past several weeks because I’ve been chewing on whether or not I should write what I really want to write. That seems like a no-brainer for a blog, but I know that many of my Christian friends are split on what I’m about to talk about so it is
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I just finished teaching Andy Stanley’s Follow Series in our adult Sunday school at church. The eight-week course was mind blowing, because Andy completely changes the way we should think about asking people to follow Jesus. As Andy explains, the traditional church model is “Change and then join us.” But that’s not how Jesus did
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As a writer, I have all sorts of ideas about what I want to discuss and there’s been this one idea floating around my head for a while that honestly has given me pause to put on paper. Sometimes I test my ideas out on a Bible study class I facilitate to see if it
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Although I’ve had a number of jobs throughout my life, my first career was in the newspaper business where I was a reporter and editor. I’ve always enjoyed reading the news and keeping up on current events, but lately the headlines just seem so dour. Here’s a sampling from some of today’s newspapers: Iraqi PM
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I’ve been away from the blog for a little while because I’ve just been super busy with a number of projects. But during the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about a couple of verses from Paul that I’ve finally figured out for my own life – and perhaps yours. In Romans 7, Paul admits
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As a Christian, I am finding it harder and harder to just hold my nose and watch as American society sinks into decay through moral relativism. The values I was taught as a child both in and outside the church simply do not apply in today’s society. Right is wrong, wrong is right, up is
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