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Tag: Jeremiah 29:11

Posted on March 27, 2019

“Destiny” Doesn’t Do It For Me

If I never hear another sermon on “Divine Destiny” it’ll be too soon! Prepared For Destiny, Destiny By Choice, Five Destiny Killers, Three Steps to Obtaining Your Destiny, Fight For Your Destiny… Too many Christians spend too much time, too much energy, and too much money trying to discover their destiny. They’re more rapt to …

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Posted on May 13, 2016

Servant Subversion – A Wrap Up

Okay, I confess to a quasi-obsession with this topic which has taken me a lot longer than I expected to unpack. I can’t seem to get out of my craw that we’re strangers following a Stranger here with a strange message in a strange land among strange people who think we’re strange. I can’t stop musing …

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Posted on April 22, 2016April 26, 2016

Servant Subversion versus Fortification

When I embarked on it I had no idea that this writing on Jeremiah 29:11 would take me on such a circuitous, even arduous, journey. I confess that I’ve ranted more than I intended about such things as the nature of “prosperity”, how we achieve it, and when we will fully receive it. In my …

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Posted on April 19, 2016

Some Substandard Strategies for Strangers

“As the dominant culture moves further and further away from traditional Christian beliefs … [it] is causing tremendous fear, uncertainty, and anxiety among many people of faith. . . . ‘We used to be the home team,’ one person said to me. ‘Now we’re the away team.’ The challenge facing Christians in America is to …

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Posted on April 15, 2016

When can we expect “prosperity” (shalom)? 

“… plans to give you hope and a future.” If you’ve been tracking with me you know what I believe about what prosperity is and how we get it. Now let’s go back to verse 11 and talk about when we can expect prosperity. Whenever I hear this passage announced it sounds to me like …

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