You Have No Excuse To Be Ungrateful
I grew up in a small town outside of Phoenix, Arizona. We lived in a modest home. My dad worked hard to put food on the table. My mom stayed home to raise my three brothers and me. We had…
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The Best Commentaries for Every Book of the Bible
Every serious student of the Bible needs to build a resource library with the best commentaries. But let’s face it, commentaries are expensive! Most pastors and seminary students I know don’t have the money to buy them all. So if…
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Why You Need to Take Imperfect Steps of Faith
Christian devotion is a series of imperfect steps of faith. Every hero in the history of Christianity has flaws. There’s not a single figure in church history (aside from Jesus) who did not make mistakes. Look close enough, and you…
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Why Christians Need Vacations
I’m sitting on the patio of an old beach house overlooking the sea in a tiny coastal village in Mexico you’ve probably never heard of. The sun is bright, the sand is white, and the rhythm of waves meeting the…
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God Never Changes: How God’s Unchangeableness Changes Us
We live in a world of constant change. Technology is advancing at a more rapid pace than ever before. Things once considered immoral in our society are now not only legal but celebrated. All around us, people make thousands of…
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Jesus Is the Hope of the World, Not the President
Politics will not cure all of our problems. Democracy will not save us. Jesus is the hope of the world, not the president. I write this on election day before we discover who will win this controversial nomination as the…
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4 Things Christians Need To Know About Suffering
I was not prepared for the toll that truly following Jesus would take. And I am not alone. Just read this post I wrote about the difficulty of being a pastor. It struck a nerve! Hundreds of pastors wrote to…
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What To Do When It’s Saturday Night and Your Sermon is Bad
It was Saturday night. I sat down to put the final touches on my sermon for the morning. I wrote the sermon quite a while ago in my process of getting ahead. I dusted my sermon off earlier in the…
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Bad Sermon Math – 4 Ways We Misuse the Bible
Are you guilty of bad sermon math? No, I’m not talking about actual math. By sermon math I mean applying some form of change on the scripture you preach. Let me explain what I mean. There are four types of…
