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How We Grow: Training, Not Trying
To some people, the word “discipline” can be a bit off-putting. It can sound harsh, a bit demanding. Even worse than that, talking about spiritual disciplines has the potential to induce a lot of guilt. Most Christians already feel like … Continue reading
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How We Grow: Silence
Miguel de Molinos was a Spanish thinker and writer in the 1600s. He wrote about three kinds of silence: the silence of words, the silence of desires, and the silence of thoughts. These silences are unique and yet they are … Continue reading
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How We Grow: Fasting
Today we want to continue our series by looking at what the Bible has to say about fasting. Last week, we kicked off this series by focusing on prayer as a way of keeping company with God. And it’s fitting … Continue reading
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How We Grow: Prayer
Today we begin with the gold standard spiritual practice: the discipline of prayer. What’s unfortunate is that so many believers feel inadequate when it comes to prayer. Public prayer in church is partly to blame, if I had to guess. … Continue reading
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How We Grow: Spiritual Disciplines
Today we begin our new series entitled How We Grow. We’ll spend the next several weeks focusing on some spiritual practices God uses for our spiritual growth. When you look at how God has created us, it’s evident that He … Continue reading
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Knowing Jesus: The Story Behind the Name, Part 2
The angel of the Lord told Joseph and Mary to name their son after the great Old Testament military leader, Joshua — the one who led the Israelites to the promised land. I think that’s also a big part of … Continue reading
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The Wonderful Cross: The Blood of Jesus, Part 1
In November 2004, Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago joined several other hospitals around the country experimenting with the use of a synthetic blood substitute called Polyheme. Loyola made the decision to equip some of their ambulances with this blood … Continue reading
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The Wonderful Cross: Substitution, Part 3
Some will say, “How is this just?” This is yet another critique of the cross. Some want to point at the substitutionary death of Jesus as evidence that God is not just. Otherwise, they argue, how could He allow an … Continue reading
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The Wonderful Cross: The Passover Lamb, Part 2
One way to think about the cross is to ask the question: What problem does the cross solve? From the very beginning, the Bible declares that our predicament is so great that only God can resolve the problem. The cross … Continue reading
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The Wonderful Cross: God’s Justice and Righteousness, Part 1
At this point in our series, we turn to what has been called one of the most theologically important passages in the New Testament: But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law … Continue reading
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