How to Ask Jesus to Be First in Your Life
In the conclusion of his letter to the church in Colossae, Paul expresses a desire to make Jesus and his kingdom first in everything:...
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Apr 5, 20193 min read
Why Men and Women Should Work Together, How to Establish Healthy Boundaries, & Good News About
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Apr 3, 20194 min read
Five Things Religion (Apart from the Gospel) Produces
Religiosity is like this strange disease—when you have it, it makes everyone around you want to vomit. Even the Apostle Paul, in some...
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Apr 1, 20194 min read
God Wants a New Kind of Obedience
A pastor friend of mine, Joby Martin, recently told the story of taking his daughter to a birthday party. It was at one of those...
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Mar 29, 20193 min read
Books You Should Read (or Read Again), the Wisdom of Social Media, & How Work Is Making Us Mise
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Mar 27, 20195 min read
We Don’t Know … But We Know
Near the end of WWII, the first town with a concentration camp that the Allied forces liberated was Ohrdruf, Germany. Allied soldiers got...
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Mar 25, 20193 min read
You’ve Been Redeemed. What Does That Mean?
If you’re anything like me, you still remember just about every scene from the greatest comedy movie of all time, Dumb and Dumber. One of...
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Mar 22, 20192 min read
Don’t “Find Your Passion,” the Regrets of 90-somethings, & Legalizing Marijua
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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Mar 20, 20193 min read
God Is Sovereign. We Are Responsible.
A few years ago, I was trying to get back home from a trip to speak at NC State that night to about 2,000 college students. I was sitting...
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Mar 18, 20194 min read
Christianity Isn’t Cussing Less and Giving More
There’s a book in my library called unChristian that analyzes the results of an extensive, nationwide study conducted by the Barna Group....
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Mar 15, 20192 min read
Steps to Social Media Sanity, Principles for Ethnic Harmony, & the Least Politically Prejudiced
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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Mar 13, 20194 min read
Yes, You Really Are That Bad
If there were ever a verse in the Bible that sounded like an overstatement, this would be it: “There is no one who does what is good, not...
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Mar 11, 20191 min read
Some Awesome Books on Writing
I (Chris) have the rare privilege of writing for a living. Writing isn’t all that I do (I also attend many meetings, which buoy my soul...
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Mar 8, 20193 min read
God and Sexual Assault, “Girl, Get Some Footnotes,” & the Greatest Pro-life Speech
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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Mar 6, 20194 min read
God Doesn’t Want Your Tithes, Your Moral Behavior, or Your Religion
People in the American church today tend to think of their lives in “buckets.” There is the “eternal salvation” bucket—that’s where Jesus...
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Mar 4, 20194 min read
Righteousness of God: Punishment or Pardon?
In the backstage area where I spend some time before services each weekend, I have a few things hanging on the wall: pictures of cities...
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Mar 1, 20193 min read
Christians and Socialism, Wounded Churches, & the SBC’s Response to Abuse
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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Feb 27, 20193 min read
Live As If Jesus Rules and Eternity Is Real
Have you ever seen someone trying to get out of a boat … slowly? They’ve got one foot on the dock and one foot in the boat, and they just...
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Feb 25, 20194 min read
Why the Gospel Teaches the Opposite of Religion
Believe it or not, Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the Apostle Paul agree on one thing: Religion can turn you into a really...
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Feb 22, 20193 min read
Answering Emails, the Danger of Insta-nostalgia, & Becoming a Church That Cares Well for Abuse
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