Honoring a Government You Don’t Like
How do you submit to government leaders when there’s so much about their lives, beliefs, and policies that you disagree with? This was...
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Apr 22, 20214 min read
Michael Jordan, Jesus, and a Ton of Fish: In the Presence of Greatness
When I was in middle school, I got to meet Michael Jordan. At the height of his fame, he came to a local golf tournament, and my best...
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Mar 18, 20214 min read
Three Traits of a Disciple-making Disciple
There is no such thing as a Christ-follower who isn’t actively engaged in God’s mission on earth to make his name known among every...
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Dec 14, 20203 min read
Husbands, Use Your Power to Bless
Some of the most polarizing words in the New Testament are these instructions from Peter in his first letter to the church: “Likewise,...
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Sep 21, 20203 min read
When Peace and Unity Seem Impossible
There is a sweet peace in giving up the responsibility to control everything and the drive to get vengeance. That spirit of sweetness is...
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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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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 15, 20203 min read
A Living Hope vs. a Flimsy Hope
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 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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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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Jul 8, 20194 min read
Three Ways to Live as Gentle Aggressors
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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