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Sep 16, 20194 min read
Every Master (But One) Leads to a Living Death
When Pastor Joby Martin moved to Jacksonville, Florida, one of the first invitations he got was to the local greyhound racing track. The...
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Sep 11, 20194 min read
You Aren’t a Slave, so Stop Acting Like One
Pastor Tony Evans tells the story of a guy who visited his nutritionist and says, “I need some help changing my diet. Every time I go by...
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Sep 9, 20194 min read
The Atheistic Problem of Evil
Kids come out of the womb like the seagulls from Finding Nemo, going, “Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine! Mine! MINE!” I’ll bet your 2-year-old has...
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Aug 21, 20194 min read
What Does It Mean to Be Dead to Sin?
Many people think that if Jesus paid it all, we now have this divine Visa card with an unlimited balance. We can just flash it whenever...
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Aug 7, 20194 min read
The Cross Wasn’t Just About God’s Love
There are a number of more liberal theologians today who buck against the idea that Jesus’ death on the cross was a necessary payment for...
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Jul 31, 20193 min read
Why We Would Have Made the Same Choice as Adam
The fourth-century philosopher St. Augustine wasn’t raised as a Christian, and he ran with a pretty sketchy crowd as a teen. They...
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Jun 26, 20193 min read
Slaves to Worship
The Apostle Paul taught in Romans that everybody—religious or irreligious, moral or immoral—is driven by worship. To worship something is...
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May 28, 20193 min read
Will People Die for a Lie?
Sometimes we lose the mind-blowing shock of the Apostle Paul’s first-century conversion. The number one enemy of Christianity...
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May 22, 20193 min read
Four Reasons People Are Ashamed of the Gospel
What is it about the gospel that tempts people to feel ashamed? Even the Apostle Paul indicated that some people are going to feel this...
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May 20, 20193 min read
How Was Abraham Saved?
What is saving faith, and how do you know if you have it? Paul answers that question by looking at the life of one of the most important...
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May 15, 20193 min read
Do Babies Who Die Go to Heaven?
Imagine you were sick with the flu and I gave you this set of rules: Thou shalt not run a temperature, have the chills, sneeze, have a...
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May 8, 20194 min read
How You Live Shows What You Believe
When I graduated high school, there was a girl that I had gone out with a few times, but we hadn’t had that DTR (“define the...
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Apr 24, 20193 min read
A Different Kind of Exclusivity
The book of Romans was written right after Jews returned to the church in Rome after being banished for five years by Emperor Claudius...
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Apr 22, 20192 min read
How Were People Saved in the Old Testament?
I often get the question, “How were people saved in the Old Testament?” To answer this question, I usually follow the Apostle Paul’s...
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Feb 13, 20193 min read
Using Google to Share the Gospel
Jews in Jesus’ day had a hard time understanding how Gentiles could be saved. Gentiles were so bad. They were the historic oppressors....
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Jan 30, 20195 min read
Two Ways to Suppress the Truth
Comedian Brian Regan has a name for the guy at the party who manages to turn every conversation back toward himself: He’s a Me-monster....
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Sep 28, 20174 min read
If There Is No God, Then Something Came from Nothing
This is the last of a four-part series on the self-evident nature of God. Be sure to go back and read Part 1 (If There Is No God, There...
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May 10, 20174 min read
Two Surprising Reasons That People Leave the Faith
Atheism seems to be making a small comeback. Beginning with Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation and Richard Dawkins’ The God...
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Jan 2, 20174 min read
Discover Your Role in the Mission of God
I saw a statistic the other day that I thought was fascinating. High school students (not Christian students, by the way) were given a...
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Oct 31, 20145 min read
Halloween Is Awesome … or Awful: Romans 14 & Matters of Conscience
Occasionally we get this question: Should Christians celebrate Halloween? And, by “occasionally,” we mean “every Halloween.” On one side...
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