The Generosity Matrix
There seems to be two extremes when it comes to how Christians view their relationship with their possessions. The first one is that God...
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Jul 16, 20204 min read
How to Be Like Christ When You’re Slandered
When the Apostle Peter said Christians should expect to be slandered and mistreated as evildoers, it’s because it was literally true for...
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Jul 13, 20203 min read
There’s No Such Thing As “Good Enough”
My family loves the movie The Greatest Showman. It’s the (highly embellished) account of P.T. Barnum’s rise to success. There’s a moving...
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Jul 9, 20202 min read
Jesus Isn’t Your Supporting Actor
What’s the point of your life? We’re on this earth, the Apostle Peter says, to glorify God and amplify the gospel: “Conduct yourselves...
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Jul 2, 20203 min read
What Newborns, the Bible, and Your Health Have in Common
Babies grow by drinking milk—lots of it. They don’t take in one glass on Sunday and another the next Sunday. They drink all day, every...
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Jun 25, 20204 min read
The Believer’s Hope: Know Christ, Be Like Christ, Be With Christ
We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks—and the subsequent protests...
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Jun 22, 20206 min read
What to Read During Your Summer Quarantine
Will quarantine continue throughout the summer? We certainly hope not. But we’ve learned enough by now to stop speculating. Perhaps this...
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Jun 11, 20202 min read
God Loves You and Keeps His Promises. Is That Enough for You?
We drafted this post prior to the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd—and the subsequent protests around the...
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Jun 8, 20203 min read
Don’t Look for Contentment Like You Used to
Before you came to Christ, your life aspirations arose from a wrong way of looking at the world, what the Apostle Peter calls the...
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Jun 1, 20203 min read
Why Narcissists Can’t Find the Will of God
If I ever had the chance to ask the Apostle Paul what his purpose was, I would have expected him to begin with his Damascus Road...
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May 28, 20202 min read
How Money Makes You Blind
In one of Jesus’ core teachings on money, he says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full...
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May 21, 20203 min read
Are You an Immigrant, Tourist, or Exile?
Peter wrote his first letter to a church whose world had been turned upside down like ours has. In the opening greeting, he says he is...
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May 18, 20204 min read
Have You Ever Been Cut to the Heart?
Less than two months after Jesus had died on the cross and resurrected from the dead, the Spirit that Jesus had promised to his disciples...
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May 11, 20204 min read
Your Conscience Is a Gift From God. But It’s Not God.
When Paul talks about wisdom in areas where Scripture is not clear, he makes it clear that unity is more important than uniformity. Many...
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Apr 20, 20202 min read
Worried? Replace Your What-ifs With Even-ifs
Jesus once asked, “Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?” (Matthew 6:27 CSB) No! Worry doesn’t add anything to your...
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Mar 4, 20204 min read
The Church, Money, and Awkwardness
You know what’s awkward? Talking about money. You know what’s really awkward? When the pastor starts talking about money. Talking about...
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Feb 26, 20204 min read
God Doesn’t Want a Venmo Relationship With You
My youth pastor growing up encouraged us to offer our lives as “blank checks” to God. When you gave someone a blank check, you signed...
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Feb 24, 20203 min read
We Don’t Serve a God of Scarcity
Are you a saver or a spender? Both kinds of people look to money to provide something absolutely essential for life. Spenders depend on...
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Feb 19, 20203 min read
Kick the Bucket List
One of the conversations I most dreaded having in my life was with my mom during my senior year of college, when I had decided God was...
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Feb 17, 20203 min read
Where Do You Get the Power to Forgive?
For the believer, the way you know you’ve really been released from bitterness is you weep in your enemy’s pain and rejoice in their...
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