God Only Offers Grace, Not Reward
Do you ever feel like your Christian life is mostly a matter of duty? You might be doing all of the right things—but it’s coming from a...
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Jun 7, 20213 min read
The Scandal of Grace: Jesus Loves Bad People
Martin Luther said that, since the fall, our hearts have been hard-wired with a “wages” mentality: We only get what we deserve. We’re...
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Mar 11, 20213 min read
What Grace Does That Religion Can’t
Grace confuses and offends religious people because people who have worked hard and kept the rules don’t like it when others who have...
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Aug 20, 20203 min read
What’s More Powerful Than Payback?
The Reverend Willy Jenkins Jr. grew up in Mississippi under the hardship of Jim Crow. He worked for the ethnic integration of public...
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Nov 15, 20192 min read
God’s Sense of Humor, Teaching Kids the Bible, & How Is Your Prayer Life?
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Oct 9, 20193 min read
How God Makes You Into Sweet Tea
Certain people in life mystify me. For instance, there is a sizable portion of our population who, when given a choice between unsweet...
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Jul 29, 20195 min read
The Three Most Important Lessons Christians Can Learn in College
Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...
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Jun 19, 20194 min read
Why Does God Allow Us to Keep Struggling Against Sin?
One of my favorite books is the Select Letters of John Newton. Newton is most famous for writing “Amazing Grace,” but he also pastored a...
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Apr 15, 20194 min read
There Is Only One Kind of Sinner
We tend to see people in categories: the successful and the unsuccessful, the intelligent and the dull, the beautiful and the ugly, the...
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Jul 16, 20184 min read
God’s Grace Is Amazing—But It Won’t Last Forever
On the surface, the parable of the wicked tenants (Matthew 21:33-46) looks rather harsh. It’s a short story, but the fact that it’s...
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Jun 20, 20183 min read
Don’t Flatter Yourself: God Can Get Along Without You
In the last statement of the parable of the tenants and the vineyard, Jesus told the Jewish leaders something that, in their...
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Nov 29, 20175 min read
The Real Reasons Our Society Is So Divided
Paul wrote to the Galatian church to show them, among other things, that a lot of barriers between people exist because we try to justify...
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Nov 20, 20174 min read
Five Ways to Bring a Good Man Down
We tend to think of Solomon as the man who, though he was the wisest man in the world, fell because he was some kind of a sex addict. I...
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Apr 24, 20173 min read
You Aren’t the Good Samaritan
In the story of the Good Samaritan, there comes a point where Jesus turns the religious man’s question on its head. The conversation...
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