Christianity
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Transformed, Not Conformed
“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of Continue reading
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All Too Comfortably Numb
“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.Having Continue reading
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Pride Is Nothing To Be Proud Of
In today’s culture, pride has become something to be celebrated. This group’s pride and that group’s pride. We have an entire month dedicated to LGBTQ pride. There are parades and official proclamations promoting it as something to be admired. However, God’s Word has nothing good to say about pride. Nothing. From Deuteronomy to Isaiah to Continue reading
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Submit Yourselves to the Authorities, Until…
“Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.” 1 Peter 2:13. This is God’s order for government. Punishing the evildoers and rewarding the righteous. Continue reading
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Spiritual War in the Classroom
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought Continue reading
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Itching Ears
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” 2 Timothy Continue reading
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Women Pastors
Today I’m tackling what can be a controversial subject (although it shouldn’t be, Scripture is very clear) that’s been brought to the forefront again this week with the action taken against Saddleback Church, and four other churches, by the Southern Baptist Convention. The subject is the ordination of women as pastors. Saddleback was among five Continue reading
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Information Surplus, Knowledge Deficit
Our world is awash in information. In the palm of most of our hands there is a device with access to more information than has ever been available to mankind in the combined history of the world. One estimate puts the amount of information we possess at 300 exabytes. That’s 300 followed by 15 zeroes. Continue reading
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Jesus Never Said…Well, Yes He Did
See if this sounds familiar. Well, Jesus never said anything about (fill in the blank). The usual context of this statement is relating to homosexuality, but it can be applied to every other sin man tries to justify which Jesus failed to explicitly condemn during his ministry on Earth. My answer to this is simple. Continue reading
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The Narrow Way
The tag line above is taken from Matthew 7:14 at the end of what is referred to as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The entire passage reads: “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.For the Continue reading
This narrow way 