Our relationship with our wives and each other is small potatoes compared to our relationship with God. If we sin against each other, the worst thing that can happen is a busted relationship and a mark on our reputation. Sin against God and we are at odds with the sinless being who created and rules…
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Where you learn that God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule, authority and government of God over all His creation…including man’s freedom. Supreme. Superior. Chief. Foremost. Highest. Preeminent. Superb. Superlative. Ultimate. Utmost. Predominate. Unsurpassable. Ruler. These are all words used to describe sovereign. And they apply to God’s sovereignty. God’s sovereignty means the absolute rule…the absolute…
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This post is dedicated to my friend . Better known as BJ. BJ is young. Intelligent. And feisty. About 10 days ago BJ jumped in a frenzy over my post on Osteen. In that post I pointed out 6 things you’ll never hear out of Osteen’s mouth. In a nutshell, BJ complained that Christians tend to treat Christianity…
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Implied in my headline is this: we SHOULD teach our children about hell. As I mentioned yesterday in my post on the justice of eternal punishment, the doctrine of hell is there in the Bible… And we, as Christians, are liars if we neglect it and cold-hearted if we refuse to warn the unregenerate. John 3:36 states…
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Christian faith is often brittle. It’s often punctuated with moments of doubt. Persecution. Isolation. Fear. We can sometimes spend entire nights staring at the ceiling or pacing the floor praying, “God, I cannot do this unless I know you are with me. Where are you? Don’t hide. Please. I need you.” It’s as if God’s…
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Women. Ah. My favorite subject. Especially since I’m married to arguably the most merciful, kind and generous woman of all. Indeed. Any amount of success I have as a father, writer or husband I owe to her. The running joke around our house is that if not for my wife, I’d still be living with…
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Answers to the hard questions of life can subdue our death instinct. A systematic study of what the Bible says about a particular topic is theology proper. It’s a pursuit every Christian must vigorously and regularly engage… Because it’s the means by which we answer the hard questions of life. Questions like who am I? Why…
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Back in 1994 “No single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals.” I’m no scientist, theologian or philosopher, but that seems strangely problematic. Especially after looking at a variety of ways in which we appear vastly different. Here are ten of the most popular: 1. Well-formed rational faculties. Humans develop arguments, explore lines of logic, draw…
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Ever wonder why you are here? Why anybody is here? I’m not talking about “what’s my purpose?” I’m talking about why did God create us? Man? Woman? You? Me? Adam? Eve? Creation? Anything? Why did he create the universe and atoms? Stars, oceans, continents, apricot trees, corn, squirrels, earthworms? Man? Did God lack anything?…
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Guest post by Daniel Wilson of . You know what it’s like to struggle with secret sin that has a death-grip around your throat… Secret sin gnaws at your conscience more than anything else… You feel like a hypocrite with moral standards fluctuating with the presence or absence of an audience… Endless cycles of determined…
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