Is Jesus the only way to God? A definite yes! But there’s a difference between different ways to God and different ways God uses to get people to the way. God is willing to travel any road to find people who haven’t yet found the way. He stubbornly hunts for the hearts of people and …
Mature Christians Renounce Barren Religion
"Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead..." Spirituality wears many disguises. It’s best one is “religion.” Pharisees are the same yesterday, today, and forever. They can imitate spiritual depth with the best of them. They appear to doggedly press into the heart of things, when they are actually just working to …
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Mature Christians Join Jesus In His Suffering
“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings” So, the experience of resurrection, that we spoke about in the last post, comes with a price, a huge price. It’s called the cross. Remember how Jesus beckoned us to take up our own cross and follow …
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Counsel For Pissed Off Prophets
“Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.” Matthew 7:12 (The Message) Oh, how we need to see from the viewpoint of “The Other” these …
Mr. Trump and a “Christian Worldview”
Tonight the president will give his first State of the Union Address. It's possible that he will apologize to the country and to the world for his behavior and policies over the past year and tell us that he's come to his senses and to Jesus. And if that happens I'll apologize myself for what …
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