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How Does Love Cover a Multitude of Sins?
31 oktober 2022 · 13 min
Christian love labors to overlook the sins of others, just as Christ went to the cross to forgive us, not to shame us.
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Christian Unity in Three Steps
28 oktober 2022 · 15 min
Real differences exist between real Christians. But where we lack unity of conviction, we can share unity of humble, sacrificial disposition.
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Step One in Preparing to Suffer
26 oktober 2022 · 11 min
We ready ourselves to suffer well when we look our life dead in the eye and say with Paul, “I count it all as loss compared to Christ.”
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Is Suffering a Paradox for Christian Hedonists?
24 oktober 2022 · 13 min
When Christ died, so did our sin-loving selves. Now, God sends suffering to weed out the sin that lingers and stunts our joy in Christ.
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How Much Speculation Should We Bring into Sermons?
21 oktober 2022 · 11 min
Preachers are emissaries of God’s revealed truth. So how should we talk about parts of the text we don’t understand?
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The Relational Pain of Ministry
19 oktober 2022 · 11 min
Christian ministry is relationally painful. Friends in the ministry can leave and never return, as even the apostle Paul experienced near the end of his life.
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How Do People Shipwreck Their Faith?
17 oktober 2022 · 10 min
Jesus, Paul, Peter, and the author of Hebrews all describe people who begin well in the Christian life before eventually making shipwreck of their faith.
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How Can I Learn to Receive Criticism?
14 oktober 2022 · 14 min
No one likes to receive criticism, even when it’s well-intended. How can we learn to control our emotional responses and remain grounded in the love of Christ?
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Becoming Unshakable in a World of Pain
12 oktober 2022 · 13 min
We all face crises, and without grace, we find our world collapsing in the midst of them. But there is strong and stable hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Is Any Part of Life Morally Neutral?
10 oktober 2022 · 12 min
Scripture calls us to do everything for the glory of God. Does that mean no action we take is morally neutral?
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Will My Spouse Be My Best Friend in Heaven?
7 oktober 2022 · 13 min
What will the relationship between husband and wife be like in the age to come? Pastor John explains how the best parts of marriage point ahead to eternal joy.
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How Do I Persist in Prayer?
5 oktober 2022 · 13 min
How can Christians always pray and not lose heart? In part, by remembering the generous heart of God and his delight to hear his people.
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How Do I Pray for My Husband’s Salvation?
3 oktober 2022 · 14 min
How can a wife go on praying for her unbelieving husband after years, or even decades, of no evident change?
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How Do I See the Glory of Christ?
30 september 2022 · 13 min
How can we see the glory of Christ? Renounce the praise of man. Devote yourself to Scripture. Turn to Christ through his word. Keep praying for sight.
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What’s the Real Problem with Fearing Man?
28 september 2022 · 10 min
Why is the fear of man such a big problem? Because those who fear men cast their vote against the trustworthiness of God.
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How to Live Fearlessly
26 september 2022 · 13 min
How can Christians live fearlessly? Replace the fear of man with the fear of God. Fear man — live fearfully. Fear God — live fearlessly.
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I Want to Be Baptized — My Husband Opposes It
23 september 2022 · 12 min
Godly submission does not require that a woman do everything her husband says. Before she is a wife who submits to her husband, she is a Christian who submits to Christ.
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Am I Called to Ministry? Five Tests
21 september 2022 · 10 min
How do we know if we are able to bear the heavy calling of being the aroma of life to some and the aroma of death to others?
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What Should We Think of Flashy Pastors?
19 september 2022 · 13 min
Pastors who flaunt their riches will not draw anyone to the hope of the gospel. They will draw men and women to the hope of luxury.
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Who’s More Sinful: Men or Women?
16 september 2022 · 14 min
Men and women may face temptations peculiar to their sex, but we both share a deep, common depravity and a profound need for mercy.
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The Godly Woman’s Charm
14 september 2022 · 8 min
Hope in God clothes a woman with a beauty that will never fade, never perish, and never cease to be precious in God’s sight.
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How Much Jewelry Is Too Much Jewelry?
12 september 2022 · 13 min
How might we as parents teach our daughters, even at young ages, how to express their femininity without flaunting their body?
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Does God Call Us to Submit to Everyone?
9 september 2022 · 12 min
God calls church members to submit to their pastors, wives to their husbands, employees to their bosses. But is there also a sense in which God calls us to submit to everyone?
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Who Are My Enemies?
7 september 2022 · 8 min
“Love your enemies,” Jesus says. But who are our enemies? The answer is broader than we might imagine.
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My Husband Left Me — How Do I Respond?
5 september 2022 · 14 min
In the wake of great betrayal, how do we respond with love and forgiveness without minimizing the evil of the sin?
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How Do I Address My Spouse’s Ongoing Sin?
2 september 2022 · 13 min
Peter tells wives to win their husbands “without a word.” Does that mean a wife should never confront her husband over a pattern of habitual sin?
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Overcoming Anger in the Home
31 augustus 2022 · 9 min
How can a father governed by anger begin to recover kindness and tenderheartedness? By freshly embracing God the Father’s forgiveness through Christ.
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Can I Be Angry with God and Be Holy?
29 augustus 2022 · 15 min
Is heartfelt anger toward God ever righteous, or even morally neutral — or is such anger always sinful?
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Is Double Predestination Biblical?
26 augustus 2022 · 17 min
Does the Bible teach that God has predestined some to disobedience and destruction, just as he has predestined some to salvation?
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The Two Greatest Questions in the Universe
24 augustus 2022 · 12 min
What are the two greatest questions in the universe? Pastor John explains by looking at 1 Peter 2:11–12.
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How Do Passions Wage War Against the Soul?
22 augustus 2022 · 11 min
When do innocent desires of the flesh become threats to the soul? When they cross over from serving God’s will to serving our rebellious self.
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What’s the Difference Between Faith and Hope?
19 augustus 2022 · 14 min
The biblical authors often intertwine faith and hope, yet they also distinguish them. So what is the difference between these two gifts of the Spirit?
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Why Do So Many Reject Jesus?
17 augustus 2022 · 11 min
When the light of Christ shines upon the darkness of our sin, we either run to Christ as the only covering for our shame, or we run further into darkness.
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Who Will Judge the World?
15 augustus 2022 · 16 min
Scripture speaks of the Father judging the world, the Son judging the world, and sometimes even the word of Christ judging the world. So, in the end, who will judge?
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How Are We Born Again?
12 augustus 2022 · 13 min
The new birth is a sovereign work of the Spirit, but it is a work bound to the word. The Spirit of God works through the word of God to glorify the Son of God.
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How Money Fears Kill Our Worship
10 augustus 2022 · 12 min
When we trust God with our money, we not only enjoy freedom from worry, but we magnify the shepherd, Father, and King who provides for us.
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What Makes Christian Love Different?
8 augustus 2022 · 13 min
What makes Christian love different from non-Christian love? It is rooted in the cross of Christ, sustained by the Holy Spirit, and aimed at the glory of God.
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What Does It Mean to Be ‘Overly Righteous’?
5 augustus 2022 · 14 min
Ecclesiastes tells us not to be “overly righteous,” but Jesus calls us to a righteousness that exceeds even that of the Pharisees. How can we put these two texts together?
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Gospel Drift — and How to Avoid It
3 augustus 2022 · 12 min
You don’t have to commit great sins in order to fall away from Jesus. You just have to neglect your great salvation.
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Why Did Jesus Need to Suffer and Die Publicly?
1 augustus 2022 · 14 min
Did Jesus have to die a public, agonizing death, or could he have saved us by living sinlessly and dying in obscurity?
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Does God Ever Tempt Us to Sin?
29 juli 2022 · 14 min
God clearly tests his people, but does he ever tempt them to sin? Pastor John explores the distinction between tests and temptations in James 1.
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Trembling Before God on Sunday
27 juli 2022 · 11 min
Hundreds of times, God tells us to “fear not.” So why does he also call us to work out our salvation “with fear and trembling”?
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Is My Humorous Personality a Liability?
25 juli 2022 · 11 min
Sober-mindedness keeps us from the silliness that is allergic to serious moments, but it also keeps us from the somberness that doesn’t know how to be joyful.
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Are Eternal Rewards and Inheritance the Same?
22 juli 2022 · 12 min
Peter assures us of an inheritance kept safe in heaven; Jesus calls us to lay up treasures in heaven. Are eternal inheritance and rewards the same?
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Fighting for Faith in the Entertainment Age
20 juli 2022 · 13 min
In an age inundated with entertainment, how do Christians stay awake to the glory of Christ and help others do the same?
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Should Non-Christians Pray for Faith?
18 juli 2022 · 12 min
Saving faith is the gift of God, who opens blind eyes and raises dead hearts. So what can unbelievers do when they find themselves unable to believe on their own?
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How Do I Prioritize My Busy Life?
15 juli 2022 · 14 min
Sometimes, busyness and stress are reasons to realign our priorities. Other times, they are invitations to pray that God would empower us to do the seemingly impossible.
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Learning to Follow God’s Will
13 juli 2022 · 13 min
God doesn’t give us a blueprint for our futures, but he does give us biblical trajectories by which we can discern his will and follow it with confidence.
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The Key to Knowing God’s Will
11 juli 2022 · 14 min
How do “spiritual wisdom and understanding” fill us with the knowledge of God’s will for our daily lives? Pastor John explains from Colossians 1:9.
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Does God Send ‘Strong Delusions’ into the World?
8 juli 2022 · 14 min
In our sin, we refuse to hear the truth, receive the truth, believe the truth — until God intervenes to give us a deep and abiding love for the truth.