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Ponder Death
I hate death. I absolutely despise it. Of course, everyone should, especially Christians. Death is not natural, though it may appear so. Death came into the world as a result of the fall of man in Genesis 3. Adam ate the fruit, and the rest was history. “Therefore, just as sin came into the world…
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Make War Against Your Sin
Recently I was trying to find a song to listen to in the car when I stumbled upon “Make War” by Tedashii (yes . . . I am a fan of Christian hip-hop/rap). The song begins with a short sermon clip from John Piper, which says: I hear so many Christians murmuring about their imperfections,…
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Where the Grounds of our Justification and Assurance Meet
Justification is a theological buzzword that, to the untrained eye, might cause an immense amount of confusion. But justification is a masterpiece of a doctrine—it is the doctrine, so to speak. If the biblical doctrine of justification falls, everything collapses with it. Christians ride or die on this incredible, God-exalting doctrine. What is justification anyway?…
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3 Reasons You Might be Anxious
Anxiety is something we all deal with to varying degrees. It’s a universal problem, and Christians are not exempt. We have conversations, events, and other debacles all around us that cause anxiety to flare up in our hearts. So, there are certainly many times we understand exactly what causes anxiety. But many times we become…
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Ask Pastor John (Review)
Outside of Scripture, have you ever been in a particular situation where you thought, “I wonder what [insert name] says about this?” We’ve had works like this from the late RC Sproul, and now we have one from John Piper. As one who has been incredibly influenced by John Piper, I am through the roof…
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Sing Your Heart Out, Christian
Singing is not my forte. If the pitch gets high enough, there’s simply no way I am going to match it—no matter how hard I try. Then I wind up sounding like the cat on my back patio at 2 a.m. the other night, screeching constantly and keeping me awake. It’s quite unpleasant. In the…
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Consider Supporting Me on Patreon
For all my life I was never one to enjoy writing. And yet, when the Lord saved me, he gave me the desire to read. The more I read, the more I felt the itch to write my own content. Here I am, and I’ve been writing seriously since 2018–now for five years! By God’s…
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Be Slow
Living the Christian life is hard. It’s easy to cave to our flesh, to do what we know to be wrong, to just go with the flow of society. It takes grace-driven effort to slow down, look around, and keep our head in the Bible and our eyes on the glory of God. I’m certainly…
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Let Him be Damned
Jesus reserved His harshest words for the religious leaders of His day. In a similar fashion, the Apostle Paul did the same regarding those who would dare preach a false gospel. In Galatians 1:6-9, Paul pens these sobering words to the saints of Galatia: “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who…
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The Bible Says It, I Believe It
Society is saturated with apologizers. Every which way we turn, someone is apologizing for something because it offended someone. It’s a vicious cycle. And Christians are, in part, included in this mess. We may not necessarily say, “I’m sorry” for a particular doctrine or Bible verse, but we sometimes may try to downplay it in…
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