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Don't Retire From Life

Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. – Mark 6:31Don’t resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. – UnknownI recall the story about ...

How Could Jesus Be a Friend of Sinners?

I wrote a song called “Jesus, Friend of Sinners” for Casting Crowns’ album The Well. It showed my frustration with the wrong picture of Jesus we believers have given the ...

Cold Showers of Unmet Expectations

The hotel bed sagged like a hammock under my jet-lagged body. My Timex beeped out the mantra, “Get up! The only time zone that matters is mine.” I rolled off ...

War, Peace, and Why Marriage Is Really About Jesus

There’s a growing movement inside the church to say that gender roles are a result of the fall. From my vantage point, nothing could be further from the truth. Gender ...

Seeking God: Lord, I am here. Speak to me.

Moses lifted his eyes and saw the flames in the distance.Something was burning on the side of the mountain – something unlike anything he had ever seen. He watched it ...

Character: Can the Devil Make Me Do It?

Sorting through some of the discouraging headlines from the sports section of various newspapers , I find an amazing number of columns dealing exclusively with the topic of character, or ...

Pharisees, Hypocrites, and Us

How did the Pharisees hear Jesus’ call to perfection?The Pharisees believed that their best would be good enough for God – especially if they adorned their religion with as many ...

Marriage: It Is Good For a Man Not to Marry

I became a Christian at a very young age. In truth, I can scarcely remember a moment when God was not an active and conscious presence in my life. Because ...

Zombie Jesus (Who Is He?)

The Gospel of Matthew ends on a spectacular note. Actually, the entire final chapter is an exclamation mark celebrating the greatest victory in Jesus’s life and challenging us with a ...

Sharing God's Love: Are You Willing to Serve a Stripper?

Do What You Can With What You HaveIn all likelihood, Sam the Samaritan didn’t have an Acme first aid kit packed on his donkey. So where did he get the ...

What Is the Most Valuable Job in the Church?

Which gifts are most valuable in the church? Wrong question! Paul concludes [in 1 Corinthians 12].All the various gifts in the church work together to create one well-functioning body. If ...

Refocus: Pray About Everything!

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. – Bobby JonesStewart Cink and I had been working together for only a few months in 2009 ...

Living Only to Serve God

Before she met Jesus, Mary Magdalene was full of demons and sickness… unclean and unfit to be in decent company.Jesus didn’t care what man thought of her. God had created ...

Bad Dads - No More Holes and Wounded Souls

When my oldest son, Jamin, was moving out of the toddler years, I started to have a difficult time hugging and kissing him. I wasn’t really sure why. But for ...

The Journey to Obedience

Today’s Bible Reading: Genesis 12:1-9Recommended Reading: Proverbs 3:5-6, Luke 9:23-27, Hebrews 11:8-19If you’ve ever seen the U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds air demonstration team, you’ve witnessed firsthand the incredible capabilities ...

You Will Overcome

In the late 1400s in Nuremberg, Germany, two brothers, Albrecht and Albert, grew up wanting to be artists. They came from a very large family of more than a dozen ...

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