Tag: christ
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Taking Fear Personally
Someone lied to you and you found out. Someone rejected you flat out. Someone ignored you, someone hurt you, someone who was supposed to care for you didn’t. We all have our someones. If we’re honest, everyone we know is a someone; everyone gives us cause for suspicion. I’m not paranoid- many of our fears…
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Deja Vu and Milestone Moments
You’re sitting on the side of the road in your car. It’s just broken down. As you sit and wait for the tow, you think of all the mess of your life of late. The list of complaints is probably long. Then you remember the last time your car broke down. It almost feels like…
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Waiting Isn’t Passive
Our days and lives are filled with waiting. For good, for bad, for new, for people, for change. Waiting is a God-designed practice. However, as the worn, torn magazines in waiting rooms around the world can attest, patience in the waiting isn’t a natural virtue. Waiting makes some of us crazy. In fact, I’m pretty…
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Lie 6: Some Sin Doesn’t Count
(A series on lies sin tells us to tempt us and trick us. Read the whole series here.) We like to restrict God’s definition of sin to make it more manageable. God doesn’t define sin manageable as just “doing bad stuff,” or “making mistakes.” God says sin is a condition we’re born into. Scripture uses…
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Confession: I’m Not a Fan of Devotions
My love-hate relationship with devotions started in college. It was my first time immersed in a Christianese culture. I didn’t know much about Jesus, and I didn’t care about the Gospel. I just wanted to be a good person and prove myself worthy to the God I didn’t understand. In waltzed a dorm-mate one day,…
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Lie 5: Your Sin Isn’t Your Fault
(A series on lies sin tells us to tempt us and trick us. Read the rest here.) We like to dismiss our sins as being someone else’s fault. After all, so many sins are committed against every one of us. Every marriage between two sinners has hurts due to sin. Children suffer the natural consequences…
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Lie 4: Sin Can Be Conquered by Effort
(A series on lies sin tells us to tempt us and trick us. Submit by October 30th if you want to be featured in a guest post exposing sin’s lies to God’s Word in this 8 part series) We’d like to believe sin can be conquered by our efforts. The enemy of our souls takes…
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I Wish American Christians Made A Bigger Deal Out of This Election
With all the chaos breaking loose over this election, I wish we were making a bigger deal of it as Christians. So many of us believers are only making a big fuss about the candidates. This isn’t just about candidates. Some of us are proclaiming that this is all just about party lines. This…
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Lie 3: Sin Defines You
(A series on lies sin tells us to tempt us and trick us. Join me in exposing sin’s lies to God’s Word in this 8 part series.) We more or less have a Sunday School answer memorized to counteract this lie: Christ defines who I am. But when it comes it to living it- predisposition…
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Lie 2: Your Sin is Special
(A series on lies sin tells us to tempt us and trick us. Join me in exposing sin’s lies to God’s Word in this 8 part series.) We don’t like to talk about our sin because we think people will judge us. So we believe a lie that keeps us isolated and alone, one that…