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Social Justice vs Biblical Justice

Social Justice vs Biblical Justice

The word justice gets used a lot. By Christians. By non-Christians. By politicians, activists, professors, podcasters, and pastors. Most of the tim...
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How To Discover God's Call For Your Life

How To Discover God's Call For Your Life

This is the third post in a series on calling. You Have a Calling: Here's Where to StartFour Lies About Your CallingNow we get to the question most peop...
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Four Lies About Your Calling

Four Lies About Your Calling

In this post, we talked about how your calling is first and foremost to Jesus. If you've already settled the first question, the second question natural...
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You Have A Calling: Here's Where it Starts

You Have A Calling: Here's Where it Starts

For most of my Christian life, the word calling made me anxious.I'd hear other people talk about their call with this settled confidence, often tied to a mom...
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Does your Marriage Feel

Does your Marriage Feel "Off"?

Augustine argued that the deepest problem with human life is not that we love the wrong things. It's that we love good things in the wrong order. T...
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Does God Still Heal?

Does God Still Heal?

Almost every Christian I know has wrestled with this question at some point. Maybe a parent's cancer scan came back clean after years of prayer. Maybe it did...
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When God Feels Silent

When God Feels Silent

Few things are worse than needing someone and having them not show up.Most of us know the feeling on a small scale. The kids who disappear when groceries nee...
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The Trinity: Our Crown Jewel

The Trinity: Our Crown Jewel

What makes a Christian a Christian?To be a Christian is, at minimum, to believe some things and not believe other things. But which things? What are the non-...
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Three Ways to Prepare for the End

Three Ways to Prepare for the End

One day, you and I will both stand before God. And we both want to hear the same words from Jesus: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”That phrase comes f...
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Why Does the Church Exist? What is it, Really?

Why Does the Church Exist? What is it, Really?

There’s a question every believer eventually asks: Why does church matter?Most people think of church as something you attend. The New Testame...
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Why is Following Jesus so Tough Sometimes?

Why is Following Jesus so Tough Sometimes?

It takes a brilliant person to distill a complex thing into its simplest form.Michelangelo carved the Statue of David from a single block of marble, seventee...
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How to Date Well as A Christian

How to Date Well as A Christian

Christian dating has a strange problem at its center. The relationship is supposed to be good. The longing for marriage is supposed to be a good thing. The d...
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What Does the Bible Say about Sex?

What Does the Bible Say about Sex?

We live in a moment where the most basic questions about being human are contested. What is a man? What is a woman? What is sex actually for? If you've ...
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Four Laws For Love that Lasts

Four Laws For Love that Lasts

First-time marriage rates have dropped roughly 50% over the last fifty years. Why? Marriage isn’t declining because it doesn’t work. It’s declining because w...
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How God Leads Us

How God Leads Us

Psalm 23 is the most famous of the psalms, and likely the most famous chapter in the Bible. Even though it was written 3,000 years ago, a world away, it has ...
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What Does it Mean to Follow Jesus?

What Does it Mean to Follow Jesus?

What does it mean to follow Jesus?That question is worth answering carefully, because we follow all sorts of things. Some follow the news religiously, observ...
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What's the Bible and How Do I Read it?

What's the Bible and How Do I Read it?

Most people own a Bible. Far fewer know what they’re actually holding.The Bible isn’t a rule book or a religious textbook. It is God’s Word, given so that we...
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Do You Know Who You Are?

Do You Know Who You Are?

The average North American spends 93% of their life indoors — padded, protected, temperature-controlled. We love comfort. It's an organizing principle of our...
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How to Have Hope

How to Have Hope

In the 1800s, the railroad was cutting-edge technology. Trains could move people and freight across the country at speeds nobody had ever imagined. One of th...
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How to Steward Your Singleness

How to Steward Your Singleness

There's a tension most single Christians live with. You're told singleness is a gift. You're also told marriage is a good thing worth wanting. Day to day, th...
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How Should Christians Handle Their Money?

How Should Christians Handle Their Money?

We arrange our lives around what we value. And when our arrangement and our values get out of sync, we eventually have to rearrange.I have a friend who’...
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What's the Deal With Prophecy?

What's the Deal With Prophecy?

When you hear the word prophecy, what comes to mind? For many people, the word carries cultural baggage. It conjures images of robed figures predicting ...
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Why Isn't God Answering My Prayers?

Why Isn't God Answering My Prayers?

My sister has thousands of unread notifications on her phone. Texts, emails, Slack, you name it, the red dot is there. I’m the opposite. The red dot stresses...
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What Jesus Wants For You

What Jesus Wants For You

The night before His crucifixion, with hours to live, Jesus prayed an extended, beautiful prayer for His followers. One commentary calls it the greatest pray...
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How To Tell If Something is From God

How To Tell If Something is From God

The Corinthian church was a mess: divided leadership, sexual immorality, and a chaos of “spiritual gifts” running through their worship services. Paul write...
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How Provision Really Works

How Provision Really Works

I came across a strange phrase recently: phenomenological transcendence. It’s the idea that no matter how you experience something, the thing itsel...
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Who Is In Charge of Your Life?

Who Is In Charge of Your Life?

God has a name (it isn’t God). And there’s tremendous value in meditating on the names Scripture gives Him, because how we think about God shapes our de...
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Three Habits That'll Change Your Life

Three Habits That'll Change Your Life

Spiritual disciplines are not ways to earn God’s favour. They are the conditions in which the Holy Spirit does deep work in our lives.Three of those rhythms,...
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When Life Starts to Crack

When Life Starts to Crack

Human names go in and out of fashion. (You’ll never meet a seven-year-old named Ken — apparently we peaked in the 1960s.) But God’s names stand the test of t...
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Two Steps To Becoming Wise

Two Steps To Becoming Wise

Who is the wisest person you know?Notice the question wasn’t, Who is the smartest person you know? Intuitively, we know being smart and being wise ...
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You Are Regenerated, Justified & Adopted

You Are Regenerated, Justified & Adopted

Most people assume the Christian life is about becoming a better person, trying harder, doing more, and cleaning yourself up enough that God is finally pleas...
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Why Your Physical Body Matters So Much

Why Your Physical Body Matters So Much

Christianity holds the highest view of the human body of any worldview on offer, including (and maybe especially) the ones that market themselves as body-pos...
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Who is God?

Who is God?

You can’t grow in a relationship with someone you don’t know. So, who is God?Jesus answers it directly: “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, t...
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What are Spiritual Gifts (and How Do I Find Out Mine)?

What are Spiritual Gifts (and How Do I Find Out Mine)?

Did you know that as a Christian, you have spiritual gifts? And do you know what they are for?It is one thing to believe in spiritual gifts in theory. It is ...
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