It’s impossible to live like this–impossible, impossible, impossible! That’s what the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote in his article of 1882 On the Occasion of the Moscow Census…but those words easily sum up all he wrote in the last thirty years of his life. This includes his attack on art, the church, the state…
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On the one had we are to call sin sin and call sinners to repentance. On the other hand, we need to love our enemies. Those who would reject us, ridicule us. Those who would call us intolerant, bigoted, and hateful. So how do we respond to a challenge like same-sex marriage or abortion? Ask…
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Below is my manuscript for the ten-minute sermon I preached at (our home church). It was the first sermon I ever preached. I was part of a team of ten or so guys chosen to preach during the Advent season. Instead of one 40-minute long sermon, each week three guys would preach a ten-minute sermon…
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Long ago I wrote a story that probably occurs a million times a year–a young man falling in love with a married woman. Here’s the tl:dr version of that story … A tall, lean bicycle courier named Morrissey has a crush on a young nurse named Beth Leguisadauskas. He gives her a ride home on…
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We all have one: a silent hero. The person who led us to the Lord. Who prayed without ceasing for our conversion. Who said or did something that changed our life–but who, for one reason or another, is no longer part of our lives. It could’ve been somebody we met in another part of the…
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Introducing the 9/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Let me give you the lowdown on the asterisk up there next to the word “Gospel.” When I first stumbled across this I found many titles that I would expect to be on that list. Then I found a few that I didn’t expect….
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Introducing the 8/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Nineteen sixty-six. That was the year that was published by . Today it is September 13, 2012. Forty-six years later the book is still in print. And if the blurb on the front cover is true there over one million copies in print. That’s…
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God is everywhere. All of God. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. At one time. At every moment. That is the doctrine of God’s omnipresence. A doctrine upheld by Scripture: But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house…
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We’ve all been there. Rapid-fire rejection. Unrelenting criticism. We find ourselves with our backs to the wall. Our nights spent staring at the ceiling. Curled into a ball on the couch. Our hearts wanting to jump out of our chest. We beg for it to end. But we know that as the sun rises it…
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Introducing the 7/60 best books on the gospel. A 62-week long series. Dear Mr. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, You, my friend, can write! I also hear you can preach, too, but alas, I’ll never hear it this side of heaven. I will look you up when I arrive, though. Until then I must be content with your books….
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