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Kingdom Living: The Beatitudes

After Jesus called the twelve disciples they travelled together throughout Galilee while he taught the crowds and healed many suffering from a variety of diseases. Word of his miraculous ministry drew onlookers along with others seeking his healing power. He…

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Scholarship and Coram Deo

I recently finished Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar (Eerdmans, 2022). I was eager to read it. I am always eager to read an autobiography about the intellectual and scholarly life of a…

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The Single’s Choice, Part 2

Editor’s Note: If you haven’t already, go back and read Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 to catch up with where we are at!) (Read Part 1 of A Single’s Choice here!)   A heart of contentment is possible because of Christ.   Since his conversion, the…

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The Single’s Choice, Part 1

Editor’s Note: If you haven’t already, go back and read Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 to catch up with where we are at!) BREAKING NEWS: a runner has tripped and fallen during their race! Wait, that runner looks familiar…It’s you.…

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Jesus is the Better Bitcoin

We are approaching a once-every-four-year phenomenon. No, not the Olympics or the pageantry of elections, but the Bitcoin-halving (due in April). Monetary rewards for mining new bitcoins (which happens through computers solving complex math problems) get cut in half. Prior…

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How Should We View Our Children?

I cannot recall how many times I met people who honestly told me that they did not want to have children because children would just interfere with their lives. They viewed children as a burden, rather than a blessing. In…

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Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner?

Context, Context, Context Christians can be guilty of making pithy statements of a theological nature that require a lot of explanation for the phrase to be accurate. If an explanation is not offered, we are sometimes demanding a lot of…

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Where are the Peaceable Presbyters?

A recent dust up on Twitter has me asking, “Where are all the peaceable presbyters?” Several years ago, I had a personal Twitter account. It seemed like every PCA pastor was using it, and I felt like I was missing…