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Seize the Future
My chief objective in life is to meet my needs and satisfy my wants myself right now. Call it human nature. Call it self-preservation. Or call it what it really is – sin. In no way, shape, or form is...
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Why Everybody Isn’t Going to Heaven
Christianity is often distinguished from all other religions because it is the only religion (except maybe universalism, which says everyone goes to Heaven no matter what) that is not works-based....
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Does God Care HOW We Worship Him?
There is a popular idea out there that it doesn’t matter how you choose to worship, as long as you are sincere. Within this idea is an unspoken conclusion that, somehow, no matter which religion turns...
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Soul Sick
Some things about life suck. This has nothing to do with my natural bent toward pessimism or my forgetting to take my depression medication. It has everything to do with the Fall. (The event, not the...
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Now is our Time for Grief
My kids and I talk about Heaven a lot. My 3 year old is just trying to wrap her brain around the concept of Heaven. She knows it is a place where God lives, and if you love Jesus, you get to go there....
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How to Deal with Pain Well
It’s not often I read the same book twice in a year’s time, but it happened this year. Partly because it is an excellent book. And partly because I am quick to forget what I “learn”. (Have we really...
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Why I Think Judas is in Heaven
Today is Good Friday, the day Christians mark the anniversary of Jesus’ crucifixion. To focus my heart on the event, I cracked open Matthew 27 to read about the details. I got 5 verses in and stopped...
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Choosy People Choose God
A concept that fascinates me in the scriptures is the idea that God chooses people. In the Old Testament, He chose a lot of individuals to do a lot of different things (2 Samuel 6:21, 1 Chronicles...
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I Want to See You Be Brave
There’s something they don’t tell you about this Christianity thing when you sign up. I’m not saying it would be a deal-breaker if you knew about it on the front end, but I am saying we’d think longer...
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