“Do what is in your heart. You choose. I’m right here with you whatever you decide” (1 Samuel 14:7).
It’s a beautiful and courageous declaration made by… someone. We don’t know his name, for it’s been lost to history. But though we don’t know his name, we do know his function – ...
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3 Qualities of God That Fuel Christian Patience –
“Are we there yet?”
If you’re a parent, you know the question. It’s the same one that’s been asked from the back seat of the family truckster since time began. Over and over again. And by now, our family has taken enough road trips where we have instituted the practice that we ...
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Jesus is a Better Advocate Than I Am –
In the movie Chariots of Fire, Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams says the following when reflecting on his upcoming race:
“And now in one hour’s time, I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor; 4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my ...
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3 Steps to Making Decisions in Light of God’s Sovereignty –
Jesus said to wait, and wait they did.
The fledgling church had been through the ringer. They had walked away from the crucifixion as a defeated movement, cowards to their own cause. But then they had seen the impossible stand before them. They had put their hands in His and ...
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3 Corrections to Our Understanding of Courage –
Courage is defined, according to the interwebs, like this: “The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery.”
That’s what it means, but I’m more interested for the moment in the pictures that come to mind when you ...
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Let Your Message of Judgment Be Mingled with Tears –
Matthew 23 is a pretty rough text. Here is one of those chapters when Jesus is at His most biting. He launches a verbal assault targeted at the religious hypocrisy found in the scribes and Pharisees of the day. Line after line He goes after them, each one – at least in my ...
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