Don’t Date in Isolation
Throughout most of history and in most cultures around the world, marriages were arranged; your community chose your spouse for you....
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Aug 24, 20203 min read
How to Turn Misery Into Ministry
Anyone can be happy when things are going well. But can you have joy when they aren’t? Flipping through the TV channels with my kids a...
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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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Aug 17, 20203 min read
Christians: Don’t Date Non-Christians
There are many purposes for marriage, but according to Jesus in Mark 10, the immediate reason God created marriage is the need for...
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Aug 13, 20203 min read
Don’t Get Through Your Singleness; Leverage It.
Those whom God has called to singleness—whether for a season or for their whole life—he will supply with all the necessary graces to live...
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Aug 10, 20205 min read
Six Characteristics of Gospel-Shaped Love
Jesus said the most defining characteristic of his church should be its love. Your love for each other, he told his disciples, is how the...
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Jul 23, 20202 min read
The Apostle Paul’s Response to Our “Cancel Culture”
Recently, I typed in “how to be happy” on our collective consciousness, Google, and one of the first articles was “Three Ways to Be Happy...
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Jul 20, 20207 min read
The Generosity Matrix
There seems to be two extremes when it comes to how Christians view their relationship with their possessions. The first one is that God...
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Jul 16, 20204 min read
How to Be Like Christ When You’re Slandered
When the Apostle Peter said Christians should expect to be slandered and mistreated as evildoers, it’s because it was literally true for...
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Jul 13, 20203 min read
There’s No Such Thing As “Good Enough”
My family loves the movie The Greatest Showman. It’s the (highly embellished) account of P.T. Barnum’s rise to success. There’s a moving...
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Jul 9, 20202 min read
Jesus Isn’t Your Supporting Actor
What’s the point of your life? We’re on this earth, the Apostle Peter says, to glorify God and amplify the gospel: “Conduct yourselves...
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Jul 6, 20205 min read
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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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 29, 20204 min read
Racial Reconciliation and the Church: Same Song, New Response
The following post comes from Janetta Oni, the Summit’s director of communications. She recently joined Pastor J.D. and Pastor Bryan...
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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 22, 20206 min read
What to Read During Your Summer Quarantine
Will quarantine continue throughout the summer? We certainly hope not. But we’ve learned enough by now to stop speculating. Perhaps this...
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Jun 18, 20203 min read
When the Ray Is Gone, the Sun Still Remains
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 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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