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Various Types of Invitations that Keep us from the Kingdom Banquet
Jesus’ parable [of the banquet in Luke 14:16-23] makes it clear that there are business and career invitations . Some people had real estate that demanded attention, and others had invested in ox... -
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Persecution is one of the natural consequences of living the Christian life. It is to the Christian what “growing pains” are to the growing child. No pain, no development. No suffering, no glory. No s... -
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The Pride of the Titanic
I know most of us have probably heard enough stories about the Titanic, but it does stand as an amazing monument to the famous saying, slightly altered, “pride goes before the fall/destruction.” (Prov... -
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When Vasili Arkhipov Saved the World
Everyone knows that during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis we were perilously close to WWIII and nuclear Armageddon. Most people don’t know HOW close we were. Or how much we owe to Vasili Arkhipov. Ark... -
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Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result. -
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Still Creatures
For all the gifts and abilities that God has given us, we are still his creatures who do not possess the divine control over life. But that limit is rejected in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The ... -
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All Saints' Day Liturgy and Prayers: Two Options for Your Church
I wouldn’t be surprised if, as a Protestant pastor, you approach All Saints’ Day with a little unease. After all, because Protestant churches tend not to have a special class of canonized exemplars ... -
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You, Lord God, made the eternal fabric
You, Lord God, made the eternal fabric of the world appear, and you created the earth. You are always trustworthy, you judge fairly, excellent and marvelous in your power; wise in creating and careful... -
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Gracious God, sometimes I think that I
Gracious God, sometimes I think that I can figure out all the consequences of my decisions. I can become overly impressed with what I perceive to be my strategic vision and analysis. Forgive me for my... -
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The Lord is our Shepherd. He is aware
The Lord is our Shepherd. He is aware of our wanton hearts. He has rooted out our sin and reversed its dire consequences upon His cross. The tree of life has become the cross of Christ. Although we ha... -
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What Is Bullying?
Bullying has been around as long as children have lived in groups. Often, adults minimize or ignore it, reasoning: "we all have to go through it—I did, and I'm ok" or even "it build... -
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Truth in the Pulpit: Why Intellectual Integrity Matters for Pastors
While sexual sin, financial scandals, and toxic work environments hurt pastoral credibility, a more subtle, and probably more common danger is carelessness with the truth. Intellectual integrity matte... -
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Blowing Through Stop Signs: Why Keeping the Sabbath Is So Important
Ignoring God's Stop Sign Have you ever been driving and inadvertently blown right through a stop sign? It happened to me recently. Anne and I were down in San Francisco meeting some friends, I w... -
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Redemption in Ancient Israel
In Israel’s tribal society redemption was the act of a patriarch who put his own resources on the line to ransom a family member who had been driven to the margins of society by poverty, who had been ... -
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Covenants are not merely contracts or promises. Rather, covenants are relationships under authority, with both obligations and rewards. The terms and benefits of the relationship are spelled out, and ... -
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A Summary of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
Pilgrim’s Progress smells of prison, for it was written in one. Thrown in jail for preaching the gospel without a license, Bunyan wrote a story in his cell. It is a story about life’s deepest question... -
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Weapon/Tool Test
Split second decisions can reveal prejudices that we aren't aware of ourselves. This is particularly important in split-second decisions with life-or-death consequences, such as police officers ha... -
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Re-Wilding and Restoring Balance to Nature
In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year hiatus. Scientists expected an ecological ripple effect, but the size and scope of the trophic cascade took th... -
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The English word “courage” is derived from the French coeur, which literally means “heart.” And since “heart” has traditionally (and metaphorically) been regarded as the seat of emotion, spirit, and s... -
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Poverty from Differing Perspectives
We have conducted the previous exercise in dozens of middle-to-upper-class, predominantly Caucasian, North American churches. In the vast majority of cases, these audiences describe poverty differentl... -
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Stories Teach Us about How the World Works
A good story goes beyond just describing what actually happened. It tells us about how the world works more broadly, in ways that pertain to things that didn’t actually happen or at least haven’t happ... -
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The Resurrection: The First Fact of Our Faith
To preach Christianity meant primarily to preach the Resurrection. Thus people who had heard Paul’s teaching at Athens got the impression that he was talking about two new gods, Jesus and Anastasis (i... -
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Grace and Karma and Bono
In the book Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas, U2’s Bono does a great job describing God’s grace. After describing how the concept of karma is central to many religions, Bono explains how karm... -
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Spiritual Blindness in The Magician’s Nephew
Jesus is clear that it is dangerous to close one’s ears, eyes, and heart to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. In The Magician’s Nephew , a novel from C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, Narnia i... -
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Accepting Guilt and Sinfulness, A Psychologist’s Perspective
Hobart Mowrer was Research Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. Mowrer critiqued Freudian psychology and its assertion that guilt was merely a pathology to be dispensed with. In this... -
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First Hating, then Loving, Coffee
When the Venetian botanist Prospero Alpini introduced the use of coffee to Europe from Egypt, the Vatican advocated against its infernal influence. That is, until Pope Clement VIII tried the foreign b... -
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Getting to Do the Things She Loves
Chris Spielman was at one time a paragon of athletic performance. A two-time All-American Linebacker at Ohio State University, and later three-time all pro for the Detroit Lions, Spielman knew what it... -
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The Dentist Always Knows
Many of us, when we know we are going to the dentist in a few days, suddenly start brushing and flossing our neglected teeth and gums, hoping that we will somehow trick the dentist into thinking that ... -
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The church is a community that exists because something has happened that makes the entire process of self-justification irrelevant. God’s truth and mercy have appeared in concrete form in Jesus and, ... -
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Individual disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in which we find ourselves are never as i...
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- Repentance (104)
- Rescue (39)
- Resilience (13)
- Resistance (10)
- Resisting Temptation (10)
- Respect (14)
- Responsibility (18)
- Rest (106)
- Restlessness (10)
- Restoration (45)
- Restoring Sight (10)
- Resurrection (80)
- Resurrection Life (14)
- Resurrection of the Dead (60)
- Resurrection to New Life (27)
- Retreat (21)
- Revelation (53)
- Revenge (10)
- Revival (14)
- Rhythms (10)
- Right Relationships (10)
- Righteousness (97)
- Risks (18)
- Rivers (9)
- Romantic Love (14)
- Rootedness (15)
- Running from God (18)
- The Reliability of Scripture (13)
- The Resurrection and the Life (15)
- The Rich (11)
- The Risen Lord (28)
- The Rock (22)
- The Roman Empire (19)
S
- Sabbath (121)
- Sacrifice (110)
- Sacrificial Living (10)
- Sacrificial Love (45)
- Safety (26)
- Salt (10)
- Salt and Light (18)
- Salvation (182)
- Salvation History (10)
- Sanctification (74)
- Satan (56)
- Satisfaction (15)
- Saved by Grace (13)
- Saving Faith (10)
- Savior (136)
- School (20)
- Science (22)
- Science and Religion (22)
- Scripture (119)
- Sea (27)
- Searching (11)
- Seasons (10)
- Second Chances (17)
- Secrets (11)
- Security (17)
- Seeds (10)
- Seeking God (54)
- Seeking the Kingdom (14)
- Self-Awareness (26)
- Self-Centeredness (47)
- Self-Control (39)
- Self-Deception (14)
- Self-Destruction (16)
- Self-Examination (14)
- Self-Image (12)
- Self-Interest (15)
- Self-Reliance (32)
- Self-Renunciation (26)
- Self-Righteousness (21)
- Self-Sacrifice (15)
- Selfishness (57)
- Selflessness (12)
- Sense of Smell (11)
- Sermon on the Mount (31)
- Sermons (11)
- Servanthood (43)
- Service (53)
- Sex (24)
- Shalom (26)
- Shame (25)
- Sheep (36)
- Shelter (14)
- Shepherd (20)
- Shepherds (21)
- Sickness (35)
- Sight (39)
- Signs (24)
- Silence (44)
- Simplicity (13)
- Sin (139)
- Sin Nature (17)
- Sinfulness (42)
- Singing (25)
- Sinners (30)
- Sins (25)
- Sins of the Church (11)
- Skepticism (12)
- Slavery (21)
- Sleep (10)
- Soil (25)
- Solitude (17)
- Songs (10)
- Sorrow (42)
- Sovereignty (11)
- Sowing Seeds (10)
- Speech (21)
- Spiritual Battles (26)
- Spiritual Disciplines (17)
- Spiritual Formation (16)
- Spiritual Gifts (10)
- Spiritual Growth (53)
- Spiritual Hunger (46)
- Spiritual Maturity (21)
- Spiritual Thirst (16)
- Spiritual Transformation (18)
- Spiritual Warfare (16)
- Sports (18)
- Stars (29)
- Steadfast Love (31)
- Stealing (10)
- Stewardship (70)
- Stillness (12)
- Stories (71)
- Storms (38)
- Storytelling (17)
- Strength (86)
- Stress (13)
- Struggles (14)
- Stubbornness (13)
- Stuff (11)
- Submission (18)
- Success (19)
- Suffering (80)
- Sun (13)
- Surgery (19)
- Surprise (9)
- Surrender (53)
- Sustainer (26)
- Sweetness (32)
- The Sacraments (59)
- The Saints (23)
- The Sick (10)
- The Soul (76)
- The Spiritual Life (10)
T
- Tears (14)
- Technology (9)
- Telling the Truth (14)
- Temptation (59)
- Ten Commandments (19)
- Testing (12)
- Thankfulness (18)
- Thanksgiving (General) (124)
- Thanksgiving (Holiday) (18)
- The Temple (32)
- The Transfiguration (10)
- The Trinity (107)
- The Twelve Disciples (39)
- Theology (28)
- Thirst (12)
- Thoughts (21)
- Time (28)
- Tired (20)
- Tomb (11)
- Tongue (27)
- Tradition (10)
- Tragedy (11)
- Transcendence (11)
- Transformation (98)
- Transgressions (23)
- Treasure (47)
- Trees (27)
- Trials (36)
- Trinity Sunday (9)
- Trouble (44)
- Trust (83)
- Trust in God (31)
- Trust in Jesus (10)
- Truth (139)
U
V
W
- The Way (13)
- The Weak (27)
- The Wicked (16)
- The Wild (12)
- The Will (21)
- The Work of the Holy Spirit (18)
- Waiting (34)
- Waiting on God (30)
- Wandering (19)
- War (54)
- Water (25)
- Ways (28)
- Weakness (95)
- Wealth (74)
- Weariness (22)
- Weddings (26)
- Weeping (19)
- Western Culture (18)
- Wholeness (15)
- Wickedness (28)
- Wilderness (62)
- Wisdom (143)
- Wisdom of God (27)
- Witnesses (35)
- Wonder (39)
- Word of God (11)
- Words (66)
- Words vs. Actions (20)
- Work (64)
- Works-Righteousness (12)
- World (111)
- World Leaders (21)
- World Peace (19)
- Worldliness (14)
- Worldly Power (14)
- Worldview (13)
- Worry (14)
- Worship (80)
- Wounds (18)
Y
Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (108)
- Gen 2 (55)
- Gen 3 (32)
- Gen 4 (4)
- Gen 6 (2)
- Gen 8 (6)
- Gen 9 (3)
- Gen 11 (6)
- Gen 12 (22)
- Gen 15 (8)
- Gen 16 (4)
- Gen 17 (1)
- Gen 18 (6)
- Gen 19 (1)
- Gen 21 (2)
- Gen 22 (14)
- Gen 23 (1)
- Gen 24 (1)
- Gen 26 (1)
- Gen 27 (5)
- Gen 29 (1)
- Gen 32 (5)
- Gen 35 (2)
- Gen 36 (1)
- Gen 37 (10)
- Gen 38 (1)
- Gen 39 (5)
- Gen 41 (3)
- Gen 42 (1)
- Gen 45 (9)
- Gen 47 (1)
- Gen 50 (7)
Exodus
- Exod 1 (5)
- Exod 2 (8)
- Exod 3 (29)
- Exod 4 (3)
- Exod 5 (1)
- Exod 6 (4)
- Exod 7 (2)
- Exod 8 (2)
- Exod 12 (3)
- Exod 13 (5)
- Exod 14 (6)
- Exod 15 (3)
- Exod 16 (12)
- Exod 17 (2)
- Exod 18 (2)
- Exod 19 (6)
- Exod 20 (27)
- Exod 22 (1)
- Exod 23 (2)
- Exod 24 (1)
- Exod 25 (3)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (2)
- Exod 32 (12)
- Exod 33 (10)
- Exod 34 (8)
- Exod 35 (1)
- Exod 40 (2)
- Exod 58 (1)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Esther
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (32)
- Ps 2 (4)
- Ps 3 (2)
- Ps 4 (4)
- Ps 5 (9)
- Ps 6 (3)
- Ps 7 (2)
- Ps 8 (27)
- Ps 9 (8)
- Ps 10 (5)
- Ps 11 (1)
- Ps 12 (2)
- Ps 13 (3)
- Ps 14 (3)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (12)
- Ps 17 (2)
- Ps 18 (10)
- Ps 19 (41)
- Ps 20 (4)
- Ps 22 (21)
- Ps 23 (67)
- Ps 24 (31)
- Ps 25 (24)
- Ps 27 (60)
- Ps 28 (3)
- Ps 29 (6)
- Ps 30 (15)
- Ps 31 (3)
- Ps 32 (30)
- Ps 33 (21)
- Ps 34 (93)
- Ps 36 (11)
- Ps 37 (28)
- Ps 38 (3)
- Ps 39 (3)
- Ps 40 (8)
- Ps 42 (32)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (2)
- Ps 45 (1)
- Ps 46 (45)
- Ps 47 (4)
- Ps 48 (3)
- Ps 50 (6)
- Ps 51 (112)
- Ps 52 (2)
- Ps 53 (1)
- Ps 54 (2)
- Ps 55 (4)
- Ps 56 (4)
- Ps 57 (9)
- Ps 59 (1)
- Ps 60 (1)
- Ps 61 (3)
- Ps 62 (10)
- Ps 63 (14)
- Ps 64 (1)
- Ps 65 (8)
- Ps 66 (4)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 68 (6)
- Ps 70 (1)
- Ps 71 (7)
- Ps 72 (13)
- Ps 73 (9)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (10)
- Ps 78 (3)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (3)
- Ps 82 (13)
- Ps 84 (7)
- Ps 85 (13)
- Ps 86 (13)
- Ps 88 (3)
- Ps 89 (5)
- Ps 90 (22)
- Ps 91 (13)
- Ps 92 (3)
- Ps 94 (4)
- Ps 95 (10)
- Ps 96 (12)
- Ps 98 (7)
- Ps 99 (2)
- Ps 100 (16)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (67)
- Ps 104 (26)
- Ps 105 (3)
- Ps 106 (4)
- Ps 107 (4)
- Ps 110 (1)
- Ps 111 (6)
- Ps 112 (4)
- Ps 113 (4)
- Ps 115 (5)
- Ps 116 (5)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (10)
- Ps 119 (95)
- Ps 121 (23)
- Ps 122 (4)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 124 (2)
- Ps 125 (1)
- Ps 126 (7)
- Ps 127 (7)
- Ps 128 (4)
- Ps 130 (14)
- Ps 131 (2)
- Ps 133 (6)
- Ps 135 (3)
- Ps 136 (17)
- Ps 137 (2)
- Ps 138 (6)
- Ps 139 (68)
- Ps 141 (1)
- Ps 142 (3)
- Ps 143 (3)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (22)
- Ps 146 (9)
- Ps 147 (33)
- Ps 148 (6)
- Ps 149 (1)
- Ps 150 (6)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (8)
- Prov 3 (96)
- Prov 4 (15)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (6)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (4)
- Prov 9 (3)
- Prov 10 (4)
- Prov 11 (25)
- Prov 12 (9)
- Prov 13 (4)
- Prov 14 (11)
- Prov 15 (18)
- Prov 16 (26)
- Prov 17 (13)
- Prov 18 (11)
- Prov 19 (19)
- Prov 20 (8)
- Prov 21 (21)
- Prov 22 (16)
- Prov 23 (5)
- Prov 24 (8)
- Prov 25 (5)
- Prov 26 (4)
- Prov 27 (9)
- Prov 28 (17)
- Prov 29 (13)
- Prov 30 (4)
- Prov 31 (26)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (57)
- Isa 2 (12)
- Isa 4 (1)
- Isa 5 (8)
- Isa 6 (35)
- Isa 7 (24)
- Isa 9 (70)
- Isa 11 (13)
- Isa 12 (1)
- Isa 14 (2)
- Isa 15 (2)
- Isa 16 (1)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 23 (1)
- Isa 25 (9)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (4)
- Isa 29 (7)
- Isa 30 (24)
- Isa 32 (4)
- Isa 33 (6)
- Isa 35 (6)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (112)
- Isa 41 (52)
- Isa 42 (19)
- Isa 43 (47)
- Isa 44 (7)
- Isa 45 (14)
- Isa 46 (2)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (7)
- Isa 49 (11)
- Isa 50 (3)
- Isa 51 (4)
- Isa 52 (7)
- Isa 53 (101)
- Isa 54 (4)
- Isa 55 (104)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (22)
- Isa 58 (36)
- Isa 59 (3)
- Isa 60 (29)
- Isa 61 (48)
- Isa 62 (2)
- Isa 64 (23)
- Isa 65 (10)
- Isa 66 (19)
- Isa 70 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (35)
- Matt 2 (50)
- Matt 3 (25)
- Matt 4 (64)
- Matt 5 (216)
- Matt 6 (127)
- Matt 7 (58)
- Matt 8 (21)
- Matt 9 (33)
- Matt 10 (17)
- Matt 11 (94)
- Matt 12 (18)
- Matt 13 (57)
- Matt 14 (29)
- Matt 15 (9)
- Matt 16 (37)
- Matt 17 (22)
- Matt 18 (52)
- Matt 19 (24)
- Matt 20 (26)
- Matt 21 (25)
- Matt 22 (39)
- Matt 23 (43)
- Matt 24 (17)
- Matt 25 (90)
- Matt 26 (29)
- Matt 27 (15)
- Matt 28 (92)