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Your Life vs. Your Lips: Which Demonstrates True Belief?
You can have all the right theology and still not enter the kingdom of heaven. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the...
Nov 8, 20213 min read
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Three Rules of Engagement for Sunday Morning
The following article by Rebecca McLaughlin is reposted with permission. The original, “Make Sunday Mornings Uncomfortable,” appeared at...
Oct 25, 20215 min read
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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...
Oct 18, 20214 min read
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Three Essential Qualities of Christian Courage
Great things in the world are only accomplished through courage. Plenty of people have great intentions, but great intentions only come...
Oct 11, 20214 min read
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New Life Begins at the Empty Tomb
When you complete one of those health and ancestry kits that you order online, it gives you all kinds of percentages. For example, I’m...
Oct 4, 20213 min read
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Three Ways to Live in Light of Eternity
Have you ever seen a really suspenseful movie for the second time? Your experience the second time around is much different than the...
Sep 27, 20214 min read
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Our Friends Are a Good Forecast for Our Future
The following article by Pastor Bryan Loritts is reposted with permission. The original, “A Happy Few,” along with many other excellent...
Sep 20, 20213 min read
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Four Responses to Adversity
You know how when you type something into Google, it auto-completes for you? It drives me crazy. Just because I searched that one time...
Sep 13, 20214 min read
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Should Christians Accept Culture or Reject It?
When it comes to living in a hostile culture, many Christians choose either assimilation or separation. Assimilation means you gradually...
Sep 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Aug 30, 20215 min read
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How to Make This Christmas About Jesus
I need to introduce you to Chris Pappalardo, The Summit Church’s editor and a friend of mine. Chris started coming to the Summit in 2002,...
Aug 18, 20213 min read
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Believers in Babylon: Refuse to Bow
When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to serve King Nebuchadnezzar’s gods or bow down to his golden statue (Daniel 3), the king...
Aug 9, 20214 min read
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Three Ways We Misuse God’s Vessels
When the prophet Daniel was an old man and King Nebuchadnezzar had been dead for more than 20 years, the king’s uber-privileged, spoiled...
Aug 2, 20215 min read
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Courage Tomorrow Begins With a Decision Today
I’m not a prophet, but let me make a prophecy I think you can take to the bank: If you wait until the hour of trial to decide how you’ll...
Jul 26, 20212 min read
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No Matter Your Age, God’s Still Got a Mission for You
When Daniel was well over 80 years old, he was still living in captivity in Babylon, which by that time had been overthrown by the Medes...
Jul 19, 20212 min read
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Is Jesus Wrong … Or Do You Just Not Like Him?
When Jesus drove out a mute demon and the man spoke, “the crowds were amazed. But some of them said, ‘He drives out demons by Beelzebul,...
Jul 12, 20214 min read
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Money, Sex, and Power: How Christians Look Different
The book of Daniel can be summed up in one sentence: If you want to make a difference, then you have to be different. You have to be...
Jul 5, 20213 min read
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Why We Speak Up for the Preborn
When he told the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus explained that it is the duty of all Christians to care about any injustice around...
Jun 28, 20214 min read
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Preoccupied. Superficial. Religious. Which Are You?
If you’ve ever driven along the Blue Ridge Parkway, you might have seen a sign that says, “Eastern Continental Divide.” It’s the divide...
Jun 21, 20214 min read
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The Scandal of Grace: Jesus Loves Bad People
Martin Luther said that, since the fall, our hearts have been hard-wired with a “wages” mentality: We only get what we deserve. We’re...
Jun 7, 20213 min read
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