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The Danger in Failing to Plan
One of the most famous quotes of Benjamin Franklin is that if you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail. The wisdom captured by the...
Apr 13, 20242 min read


Decisions and Bowls of Soup
Every single day demands more decisions than you can count. Almost all of those decisions are simple and require no significant effort on...
Apr 6, 20243 min read


What Does the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Mean for You?
We think far too much about death as a termination of life. But that is really only true of biology. The bible tells us that life in some...
Mar 30, 20243 min read


Palm Sunday and Decoding the Misunderstood Prophecy of the Popular Jesus
John’s gospel provides for us one of the most ironic prophecies of the bible. In John 11:45-53 Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the...
Mar 23, 20243 min read


What Does it Mean to Grow Spiritually?
What does it mean to grow spiritually? Really. What does it mean? Have you thought about it? Does it mean going to church more? Does it...
Mar 16, 20242 min read


The Power of Values
The word “values” appears over and over in our conversations, our news casts, our politics, our opinions pieces and a variety of other...
Mar 9, 20242 min read


Considering the Supernatural Nature of the Bible
Even if I were an atheist, I would be forced to acknowledge that there is something supernatural about the bible. Perhaps as an atheist,...
Mar 2, 20242 min read


The Power of New Identity
Human identity is best thought of in two ways. First, we usually think of identity as the unique and disparate characteristics that...
Feb 24, 20242 min read


Chosen, Special, and Transforming toward Goodness
The apostle Peter gave us an immensely important Christian concept in his first letter. The KJV renders Peter’s thought this way: “But...
Feb 17, 20243 min read


The Love of Money
Paul commands Christians to avoid conforming to worldly patterns. Instead, he tells us to be transformed by the renewal of our minds...
Feb 10, 20243 min read


The Burden of Debt and the Spiritual Freedom of Generosity.
The cause of America’s economic woes is not the result solely of political mismanagement. More than anything else, it is the result of...
Feb 3, 20243 min read


Fallow Ground
The industrial revolution that transformed the world and brought us much good also forced out of us troves of wisdom that lived in the...
Jan 27, 20242 min read


Streams and Trees and You
In his epistle, the apostle James seems to burden us with a command to action. He directs us to be doers of God’s word and not just...
Jan 20, 20243 min read


It's All Greek to Me
Translation is the science and the art of taking the ideas, the concepts, and the meanings trapped in the words of one language and...
Jan 13, 20243 min read


Wielding the Sword
The writer of Hebrews likens the Word of God to a sharp double edged sword that is able to divide between soul and spirit, joints and...
Jan 6, 20243 min read


Light is the Joy of Wise Men
Wise men see value in light, and so they pursue it as it leads them to wisdom, humility, and great joy. Evil men, however, see value in...
Dec 23, 20232 min read


The Prince of Peace
If you go out and survey a bunch of people on the street and ask them to define for you the term “peace,” most will say that it means to...
Dec 16, 20233 min read


Short Term Missions and Its Critics
One of the criticisms of American evangelical short term missionary work is that it doesn’t focus enough on Jesus, but instead is too...
Dec 9, 20233 min read


Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
God frequently chooses the small to defeat the great. When Paul was encouraging the Christians at Corinth with his first letter to them,...
Dec 2, 20232 min read


Human Beings and Their Discontents
All human problems sprout from poor spiritual soil. In fact, barring biological or developmental weaknesses, along with accidents of...
Nov 22, 20232 min read
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