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Salvation by Ideas? God Forbid!

Recently, I’ve had three conversations that all circle around one significant topic: Christianity as a mere intellectual exercise. In the first, a seminary student told me of a conversation with his son: “Dad, I believe in the Christian faith. I…

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How Not to Fall Away

“I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not…

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Loving the Church, For Better or Worse

Something is terribly wrong when professing Christians do not identify with the church and love being a part of her. Something is wrong when professing Christians fail to be passionate about every aspect of the church and long to invest…

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When You Say You’ll Pray…

Have you ever gotten a request from a fellow brother or sister in Christ asking for immediate prayer? Perhaps he is facing a temptation for which he needs help resisting. Or maybe she is feeling overcome by grief or sorrow…

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A Mantle of Love for the Weak

On the night I proposed to Anna 15 years ago, she gave me a gift–an antiquarian edition of Thomas Brooks The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. It is a work to which I returned many times over the past 15 years.…

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Sufficient Hope

If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…

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Sufficient Hope

If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…

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Sufficient Hope

If you could give a new mom the perfect gift, what would it be? Would it be full night’s sleep? Maybe you’d give her a hot meal without interruption or maybe the confidence that she’ll be a good mom. Those…

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Against Open Doors

Much that passes for Christian decision making in modern Evangelicalism strikes me as a mixture of lazy moral reasoning and illegitimate efforts to discern those “secret things” (Deut. 29:29) that God has never promised to reveal to us. Scripture has…

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A Censorious Spirit

Sinclair Ferguson once lamented the fact that whenever he overheard others discussing some public theologian or individual at a conference, the statements were almost always prefaced with a negative comment such as, “Well, you know, the problem with him is…”…