Seven Obstacles That Stand in the Way of Ethnic Unity
A biblical church pursues ethnic unity more than a diversity quota. The point isn’t to have a visibly diverse audience—though that’s a...
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Aug 15, 20223 min read
Five Commands from 1 Corinthians
As Paul closes the book of 1 Corinthians, he summarizes everything he’s taught with five commands—be alert, stand firm in the faith, be...
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Jul 18, 20224 min read
Why Does the Resurrection Matter?
If we’re in Christ, we know that one day, God will bring us to a renewed, eternal physical kingdom where we’ll experience a glorified and...
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Jul 11, 20223 min read
How to Follow the Spirit Like an Apostle
One of the things I love most in reading Paul’s letters is the little biographical bits he throws in every now and then. These usually...
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Jul 5, 20223 min read
What Will Our Resurrection Bodies Be Like?
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul doesn’t fully answer our questions about the resurrection, but he gives us the basic parameters for how to...
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Jun 27, 20223 min read
How Much Do I Have to Give? (And Other Common Giving Questions)
Giving is all over Scripture. Over and over and over again, people respond to God’s generosity toward them by (1) giving a portion of...
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Jun 8, 20223 min read
My Favorite Personality Test
Personality assessments are everywhere. Between the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, CliftonStrengths, and the 52 others out there, I can easily...
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May 16, 20224 min read
What Is Love? (Baby, Don’t Hurt Me.)
What is love? Is it … A feeling? An action? An invention by Hallmark for yet another holiday? In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul shows us an...
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May 2, 20223 min read
Finding God’s Will in Two Simple Questions
There’s a myth out there that there’s a sacred privilege for a few Christians who will one day look at their bowl of Cheerios and see...
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Apr 25, 20223 min read
Spiritual Gifts Are How Jesus Continues His Ministry
Jesus promised that after he was gone, he would continue to build his church. By his Spirit. Through his disciples. Both of those phrases...
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Apr 18, 20223 min read
Four Things We Proclaim When We Take Communion
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 11, For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord...
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Apr 11, 20223 min read
Three Goals Every Church Must Have
Earlier this year, when the Winter Olympics were going on, I read about the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, the swimmer...
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Mar 28, 20222 min read
Idolatry Corrupts, but God Is Faithful.
In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul ties idolatry to all kinds of corrupted behavior, imploring us to learn from Israel’s example and avoid its...
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Mar 21, 20222 min read
Discover your gifts, discern God’s will.
If you’re a follower of Jesus, God has given you a part to play in his body. But I’ll bet you’ve often asked yourself, “What exactly am I...
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Mar 14, 20223 min read
When Should I Not Take Communion?
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul says, “Let a person examine himself … for whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will...
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Mar 7, 20223 min read
God’s Design for Sex
In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul wants to show the Corinthians that there is a spiritual dimension to sex because God made us a (here’s your...
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Nov 29, 20213 min read
What Church Unity Is … and Isn’t
In churches that are reaching unchurched people, there are always going to be issues of unity. Because they reach across political lines,...
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Nov 16, 20214 min read
Four Reasons Church Discipline Is Actually Loving
In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul rebukes the church in Corinth for neglecting to discipline those among them who were still stubbornly, willfully...
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Oct 18, 20214 min read
How to Identify Counterfeit Gospels
When I ordered from a clearance website that offered a deal of “$25 each when you buy three pairs of Ray-Bans,” I should have had some...
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Jul 20, 20207 min read
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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