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We, with joy, we recount God’s great faithfulness to us and say with the psalmist, “Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.” (Psalm 106:12). However, we also must admit that we partake in the very next verse just as much—if not more often, “But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.” (Psalm 106:13).
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“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 Jesus said to him… It seems pretty typical of Thomas to doubt Jesus (v.5), but what Jesus shows himself faithful to do to Thomas multiple times in the Gospel accounts…
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This morning, at a book club meeting, one of my friends put forth the thought that there doesn’t seem to be any—or many—real theological debates in our time. The extent to which that is true can be disputed—it certainly is true, but it really got me thinking about why it’s true even if it’s only…
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He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:32 For several weeks now in my community group at church this verse has been brought up, and it dawned on me this morning that for this…
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This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 God does not do things without a purpose. He has not set everything into motion and now sits by, watching things develop without the ability or interest to intervene. He has made everything that is, and…
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Today marks five years I’ve been married to the love of my life, Verena. Looking back, there have been quite a few notable experiences — graduations, five moves, jobs, buying a home, the birth of James, etc. — and I feel like God has used all of them, by his grace, to continue making me…
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“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing?…
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God, in his grace, allows his redeemed to experience the ways that he loves them through varying life experiences. Ultimately, we learn of all of this love, infallibly, through the words of Scripture which declare the sacrifice of the very Word of life, Jesus Christ, for his enemies making them his beloved. However, in experiential…
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This is the famous introduction to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount recorded in the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5-7. In these 10 verses Jesus quickly flips everything that we think to be correct on its head, and beautifully offends and astonishes all readers/hearers. The Beatitudes – much like the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians…
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“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 So… Because of man’s enslavement to sin, there must be intervention from another. So if… Not all will be set free from their sinful bondage by God Almighty who works all things according to the counsel of his will for his…
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The Drawing Board 