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This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. -John 3:16 (MSG)
When Praying Is Hard
I’ve been a pastor for over twenty years, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the following: “I just don’t know how to pray.” “I didn’t grow…
The Message of Christmas
The story of Jesus’ birth has an immense progeny. Our planet fairly teems with stories and songs, paintings and drama that got their start from this story. The reproductive energies…
The 6 Avenues of Life to Infuse with the Gospel
“What is it going to take to see legit transformation in the communities in our country?” This was what my wife asked me in the wake of our time in…
Don’t Do Something Permanently Foolish Because You Are Temporarily Tempted
You have charged us to keep your commandments carefully. Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees! Psalm 119:4-5 In front of a gas station in Johannesburg, South Africa,…
The Closing of Autumn
The first-frost smells of slightly frozen autumn are transcendent. Last night’s temperatures brought all but the heartiest of this year’s bounty to an end; yet when the first rays of…
Keeping ‘Holy’ in ‘Halloween?’
If you step into Walgreens or Target in October, one thing becomes crystal clear: we are about to be swept away in a storm of holiday decorations and candy. From…
Why Racial Reconciliation Won’t Get it Done
Racial reconciliation. This is a term we’re used to hearing—but we rarely see positive results from discussions surrounding it. The words racial reconciliation usually trigger greater chasms of division rather…
4 Ways to Teach Thanks
In the Old Testament, a thank offering represented an act of thanksgiving for answered prayer and blessings given. It expressed a voluntary desire on the part of the offerer(s) to…
Give Us Our Daily Bread
Praying for you need … today. Few people in modern times have demonstrated the power of petitionary prayer more powerfully and consistently than the nineteenth-century philanthropist and pastor George Müller,…
“I Don’t Feel Like a Very Good Christian”
I could tell something was bothering my wife one evening—she was quieter than usual and didn’t look at me as much. Finally, after the kids were put to bed, she…