16 Chapters, One Theme: The Gospel Is Hope
The greatest Christian leaders for the last two thousand years have maintained that Romans is the most important theological book ever...
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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 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 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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Mar 11, 20204 min read
A United Family in a Divided Society
Reading Romans 16 reminds me of a tradition my family had growing up on New Year’s Day. My mom would cook corned beef and cabbage, which...
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Mar 9, 20203 min read
What Rogue One Teaches Us About God
I’m just going to make my stance clear, once and for all, because I know many people have wondered and speculated about it. I am of the...
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Mar 2, 20203 min read
Five Steps to Help You Find Your Role in the Mission of God
The church has one mission. As Paul puts it in Romans 15:21, our job is to ensure that “… those who have never been told of him will see,...
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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 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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Feb 12, 20204 min read
Think You Don’t Need a Church to Know Jesus? Think Again.
During the summer at one of our Summit campuses, an Afghan woman—I’ll call her Hadiya—showed up to VBS and, with a very limited...
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Feb 10, 20204 min read
You’re Called to Ministry … But You’re Not Called to Every Ministry
Not everything that comes from heaven has your name on it. While all Christians are called to evangelize, give, serve, and pray (among...
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Feb 5, 20203 min read
What It Really Means to Have Our Minds Transformed
This may surprise you, but I’m not an expert on butterflies. I do recall a few key insights from one of my favorite books, The Very...
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Jan 29, 20204 min read
Beware the Complacency of “Once Saved, Always Saved”
Many cultural Christians think church is a good thing, but they are not committed. They are not involved in any ministry. They don’t...
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Jan 27, 20204 min read
In Suffering, the Unimaginable Is Still True
A friend of mine was diagnosed with a very serious and deadly form of cancer. It looks like it may rob him of some of the best years of...
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Jan 15, 20204 min read
This Nine-question Quiz Will Ruin Your Day
The Apostle Paul says that at the core of all our sin is idolatry. He didn’t just mean bowing down to statues (though that counts)....
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Jan 6, 20203 min read
The Foolishness of Pride
I once heard the story about an Army officer who had just been promoted to Colonel. He was feeling pretty high on himself and kept...
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Dec 16, 20193 min read
Your Religious Sincerity Won’t Save You
In the Apostle Paul’s day, there were 613 written, Old Testament laws that Jews strictly adhered to. If that sounds like a lot, it is....
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Dec 2, 20193 min read
God Saves Us for His Glory
One of the most common objections to evangelical Christianity today is the question of why a “good God” wouldn’t just save everybody. If...
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Nov 20, 20193 min read
The eBay Rule
They say the value of something is shown only by what someone is willing to pay for it. Joby Martin, a pastor in Jacksonville, calls this...
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