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āI Hate Theologyā is an Absolutely Dumb Statement (Grace Basics 3)
Over the past few years itās become popular in hipster-ish types of churches (not that Iām opposed to ANY expression of the church) to say things that SOUND right but actually breakdown to ānothingā when placed under...
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The Happy God (Grace Basics 2)
I knew a pastor who used to say, āGodās in a good mood.ā To his dying day, heād chuckle- in a serious way- when he said it. He was convinced that God was absolutely happy.
Somehow, I was totally uncomfortable with...
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(God is Good and) Good is Gooder Than Most People Think (Grace Basics 1)
What is God actually like?
Thatās a big questionā and one that matters.
You see, we practically ālive outā our beliefs, even those weāre not aware of. And, one of the biggest, most important beliefs is what we think...
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10x Potential + (Heaven in Business)
A few weeks ago I met Andy Masonā¦ online. Weāre in a common Facebook group, because we use the same software to run our websitesā¦
One of his posts led to an offline conversation which led to us swapping books. He was...
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The bill always comes due (Future Grace #7 of 7)
The Lord established an everlasting covenant with David in 2 Samuel 7:16. He promised an offspring of his would always sit on the throne.
Notably, this occurred BEFORE David committed adultery with Bathsheba and then...
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The body (still) keeps the score (Future Grace #6 of 7)
āRepressed emotions are unfinished business,ā David Stewart writesā they highlight pages in the past that continuing altering our story in the presentā (Healing Oils of the Bible, p116).
As this relates to pain in the...
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The thing that requires the greatest faith (Future Grace #5 of 7)
The disciples spent a lot of time with Jesus. Thatās how ādiscipleshipā worked back in Biblical times. Whereas weāve reduced the concept to ā... the breed of discipleship they experienced was a life-on-life encounter...
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Soul memory works like muscle memory (Future Grace #4 of 7)
There are 3 facts about human nature:
š FACT 1 = Weāre designed to explore and grow. We, by our nature, venture forth and look into the unknown.
š FACT 2 = Some of that exploration causes PAIN. That is, not all...
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Everything (literally, everything) all at once (Future Grace #3 of 7)
Albert Einstein said that time is relative.
He didnāt reject the existence of time. Rather, he rejected the distinction between past, present, and future.
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āThe light you see now left the sun 8 minutes ago,ā a...
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Whoās really the center of the universe? (Future Grace #2 of 7)
During my first year of college I developed the habit of sitting down with a paper calendarā the kind I still carry to this dateā the first day of class, syllabus in hand. I always wrote which chapters were being...
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Itās better to go to the house of mourning than the house of feasting (Future Grace #1 of 7)
Solomon tells us itās better to āgo to a house of mourning than a house of feastingā (Ecclesiastes 7:2). That is, something in looking at life soberlyā from the vantage point of our humanityā shifts everything into...
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Sacred space where others are overwhelmed by grace
Culture trumps just about everything. If you create an environment where people can thrive, they generally come alive.
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Let me tell you where Iām headed in this talkā¦
Proverbs reminds us that the āfear of the Lordā...
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