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Some other observations about legalistic types from the story of the Prodigal's big brother: They tend to miss the party: “He refused to go in …” (Luke 15:28) Lots of legalist-leaning Christians are like that. They may be, in one sense, “holy,” but it’s never a happy holiness. They’re too busy keeping their halo on …
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Predictably good… The Jesus character in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis is a fierce lion named, “Aslan.” One of Aslan’s most notable characteristics was his unpredictability. He seemed capricious, almost fickle at times. He would show up sometimes and save the day, and at other times he would wait and sort of …
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No bad days and no bad parts… “Holy, holy, holy…” Revelation 4:8 Everyone has a character. We have either a good character or a bad one, or – most likely – a mixture of both. We’ve all used the figure of speech, “That guy has character,” or, “She has no character at all.” But in …
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“Do you know what you really need?” I want to know God. I mean I really do want to know him. It’s a core value for me. It’s not that I don’t want to do things for him – that too. But I figure that I can’t show him any better than I can know …
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I grew up as if I were an only child. My parents were in their 40’s when I was born and my two siblings were nearly twenty years older than me. To show you how sharp I am, it wasn’t until I was in college that I did the math and came to the shrewd …
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