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#WorshipWednesday – The Universalism of Worship
Back in 2005, David Foster Wallace—famous author and known secularist—said these words at the commencement ceremony at Kenyon College: “Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship…is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat…
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The Perils of Planned Revivals
You’ve probably seen it before: you’re driving down the road, and to your right you see that the local Baptist church is scheduling a revival on so-and-so dates. To most people, this doesn’t make them think twice. It’s ordinary. It’s normal. But here’s the big issue: Holy Spirit-led revival isn’t ordinary. It is not normal.…
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#WorshipWednesday – Why Does God Command Us To Worship Him?
For this #WorshipWednesday, I am sharing a sermon snippet from John Piper. In this 7-minute video, he asks and answers the question: Why does God command our worship? Does that make God needy? Piper, in his energetic form, says, “What if admiration were the highest pleasure and what if God we’re the most admirable being?…
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Why I Changed My Mind on the Spiritual Gifts
For all of my Christian life—which is, by God’s unwavering grace, a little more than five years—I have been a continuationist. That is, I have believed that the miraculous spiritual gifts—tongues, prophecy, etc.—have continued and are for today. But in the past couple of months, I struggled with that position. I had always understood (for…
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#WorshipWednesday – Is He Worthy?
I’m going to start a new thing on my blog called #WorshipWednesday. Every Wednesday, I will post some type of material that pertains to worship. It won’t necessarily always be a worship song. As we know, we don’t worship God only through song. So, to start it off, I am linking Andrew Peterson’s song “Is…
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3 Things for Christians to Know
In 2018, a Ligonier Ministries study showed that 78% of professing Christians believe that “Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God.” Continuing with that unbiblical trend, 52% of evangelicals agreed that “everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.” These two foundational truths—one about the center of our faith,…
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God’s Grace in our Lives
Ordinarily, I write about theology and how it is applicable to our lives as Christians. From time to time, though, it’s necessary to write about more personal things. I wanted to write a blog about things that are going on in our life right now. Of course, most who see our (mine and my wife’s)…
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Heard, Seen, and Touched
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with…
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When He Appears
“Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” (1 John 3:2) I was reading this verse the other day and two parts of it captured my focus. “We…
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Ephesians 1 and Union with Christ
The doctrine of our union with Christ is unmistakably present in Scripture. Certainly, you would have to blatantly lie to deny it. It is arguably the most precious doctrine in Scripture because it is central to our salvation. And yet, it is widely misunderstood and, even more so, neglected because of its confusing details. Everybody…
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