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Philippians 3:18–21: Two Ways to Oppose God
20 augustus 2019
God’s enemies will face God’s eternal wrath. So who are these enemies of the cross, and how do I know I am not one of them?
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Philippians 3:18–21: Two Ways to Nullify the Cross
17 augustus 2019
The cross was designed by God to humble us. It reminds us that we need Christ’s blood to rescue us, and his power to strengthen us.
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Philippians 3:18–21: Are You Ruled by Your Desires?
13 augustus 2019
To love the world and all its riches may scratch an itch for a moment, but it will cost you everything in the end.
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Philippians 3:18–21: A Mini-Theology of Hell
10 augustus 2019
As hard as it may be, we must face the reality that hell exists and is promised to all of God’s enemies.
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Philippians 3:18–21: Do You Weep Over the Perishing?
6 augustus 2019
God does not call us to learn just from Paul’s teaching but also from his emotions. Do you weep over the lost like the apostle Paul?
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Philippians 3:17: The Kind of Person You Should Imitate
3 augustus 2019
The question is not if you are imitating, but who. We either imitate those who walk toward heaven or those who walk toward hell.
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Philippians 3:17: Should Someone Imitate Your Life?
30 juli 2019
God has given you life to honor him, display him, and summon others to follow him.
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Job 19:11–42:12: The Lord Gives and Takes Away
27 juli 2019
Though God may take away, he has made a promise — and sealed it with his Son’s blood — that he will give back more.
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Job 2:4–10: How a Fool Responds to Suffering
23 juli 2019
We have a refuge in times of trouble, safety amid life’s storms. Only a fool curses the shelter and runs into the eye of the storm.
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Job 1:20–2:8: If God Afflicts You, Will You Curse Him?
20 juli 2019
No suffering takes God by surprise. He alone is the perfect help in our pain. Should all around our soul give way, he then is all our hope and stay.
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Job 1:6–22: How to Respond to Tragedy
16 juli 2019
We cannot respond however we want when we suffer. Though we can grieve and mourn, if we never get to worship, we’ve stopped short.
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Job 1:1–2:3: Who Caused Job’s Suffering?
13 juli 2019
If God stripped away our gifts — our income, our family, even our own health — would we curse him or bless his name?
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Job 1:1–12: Can You Trust God in Your Pain?
9 juli 2019
Job remained steadfast in his suffering and has left us with a model for how to trust God with our pain.
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Philippians 3:15–16: Stages of the Christian Life
6 juli 2019
No one starts as a mature Christian. Keep seeking God. Keep laboring to grow. And keep trusting that God will bring about our maturity.
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Philippians 3:15–16: How God Changes Our Minds
2 juli 2019
God changes minds through ordinary means: Our gaze fixed upon his word, our knees bowed in prayer, and our time spent with our eternal family.
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Philippians 3:15–16: How to Disagree with a Christian
29 juni 2019
We cannot disagree with Christians in any way we want. God has given us boundaries and ways forward.
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Philippians 3:15–16: What the Mature Think About
25 juni 2019
A heavenly mindset will not be lofty and self-righteous, but humble and God-dependent.
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Philippians 3:15–16: What Does It Mean to Be Mature?
22 juni 2019
God wants us to grow up and leave behind childish ways. And he has done everything necessary to ensure it can happen.
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Luke 6:20–26: Human Praise Is a Cheap Reward
18 juni 2019
Those who live for riches and the praise of man today will have hunger, mourning, and weeping tomorrow.
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Luke 6:20–26: Should I Look For a Reward from God?
15 juni 2019
Do we err when we love others for the reward God offers us? No. Only those who labor for what God promises are rich enough to love others selflessly.
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Luke 6:20–26: How Christians Laugh
11 juni 2019
Those who follow Christ can weep now, can be poor and temporarily hated now, and yet remain wildly blessed because theirs is the coming kingdom.
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Luke 6:20–26: The Kind of People God Blesses
8 juni 2019
If we are Christ’s disciples — whether poor, hungry, weeping, or persecuted — we are blessed.
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Evidence of the New Birth: Living Out Identity in Christ
4 juni 2019
All of the New Testament commandments are a call to become in experience what we are in Christ. And what we are in Christ is a new creation.
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The Effort Needed to Fight Sin: Living Out Identity in Christ
1 juni 2019
The Christian’s life on earth will always be walking along the narrow path. Living for sin is easy. Following Christ requires carrying a cross daily.
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Be Who You Are: Living Out Identity in Christ
28 mei 2019
When we read commands and obligations, we are being summoned to become in experience what we are in Christ.
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Philippians 3:11–14: Run Hard for Your Reward
25 mei 2019
We are going to win this race. We are going to get the crown. Not because we are great runners, but because Christ has made us his own.
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Philippians 3:11–14: When Should I Forget My Past?
21 mei 2019
Pursue, strain forward, press on. God wants us to put all energy into making it to the end, not revisiting the life we had before we started the race.
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Philippians 3:11–14: The One Reason to Live
18 mei 2019
Devote your whole life to this one pursuit: attaining the fullest possible experience of Christ imaginable.
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Philippians 3:11–14: Can I Really Have Assurance?
14 mei 2019
God wants to give his children the assurance that they will be saved. But not the kind of assurance that ignores the warnings along the way.
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Philippians 3:11–14: Does Paul Think He Could Miss the Resurrection?
11 mei 2019
The crown of life belongs to those who seek holiness, who hold fast to Christ, who finish the race. The crown of life belongs to Christians.
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James 4:13–16: Is God Sovereign over Evil?
7 mei 2019
We do God no favors by excusing him from being sovereign over evil. But we can steal confidence from his children that nothing happens to them without a purpose.
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Your Life Is a Mist: James 4:13–16
4 mei 2019
Planning becomes sinful when we presume whatever we schedule will come to pass. Preface all of life with “If the Lord wills.”
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James 1:12–15: Does God Ever Tempt Me to Sin?
30 april 2019
God’s sovereignty means he reigns over every trial. And his love means that he intends them all for our good and his glory.
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James 1:12–15: Is God Testing Me?
27 april 2019
Don’t get discouraged if the fight against sin seems endless. The fight is necessary, the fight is winnable, and the fight will end.
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Philippians 3:7–10: Suffering Can Be an Answer to Prayer
23 april 2019
Christian, God is working in your suffering. He is working Christlikeness, working trust, working to draw you closer to himself.
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Philippians 3:7–10: Where to Turn When Suffering Comes
20 april 2019
God gives us power — not to escape or avoid suffering — but to endure suffering while looking to Christ.
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Philippians 3:7–10: The Mark of a True Christian
16 april 2019
In this life, we will suffer. And through that suffering, we will know Christ in a way nothing else can provide.
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Luke 5:1–11: How a Prosperity Preacher Abuses a Verse
2 april 2019
Prosperity preachers not only twist and mangle the Bible’s message. They twist and mangle their hearers.
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Philippians 3:8–9: One Way to Know You’re in Christ
19 maart 2019
Faith is the experience of Christ as our surpassing worth and all else as rubbish by comparison.
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Philippians 3:8–9: The Garbage We Bring to God
16 maart 2019
When we gain Christ, we get a right standing before God that depends upon Christ and not ourselves.
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What Christ Might Cost You: Philippians 3:7–8
12 maart 2019
A Christianity that never inconveniences us, never discomforts us, never costs anything, is not Christianity.
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Philippians 3:2–7: Morality Minus Jesus Damns Us
9 maart 2019
We can feel safe before a holy God and boast of a sure eternity. But we cannot do that by looking to ourselves.
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Philippians 3:2–7: Seven Deadly Confidences
5 maart 2019
The right parents, religious fervor, even good deeds will not save. We could have thousands of confidences, but all will fail unless it is Christ.
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Philippians 3:2–7: How to Live in the Flesh
2 maart 2019
We act out miracles when we do ordinary tasks — attending a work meeting, eating dinner with our family, talking to a neighbor — relying on Christ.
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Philippians 3:2–7: Put No Confidence in the Flesh
26 februari 2019
Paul had an impressive résumé and a lifetime’s worth of accolades — but none of them could save him, and none of them could compete with gaining Christ.
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Titus 2:11–14: The Christian Life Is Waiting
23 februari 2019
A longing for heaven can’t help but eclipse longings for worldly pursuits because a longing for future glory produces in us a pursuit of glory today.
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Titus 2:11–14: The Best (and Hardest) Life
19 februari 2019
Our hope does not rest on ourselves, our neighbors, our politicians, or our kings, but on the one and only true and coming King.
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Titus 2:11–14: Cheap Grace Is No Grace
16 februari 2019
Those who say they know grace while refusing to pursue holiness do not know God’s grace as taught by Paul.
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Titus 2:11–14: The Grace of God Appeared
12 februari 2019
God’s grace didn’t appear in a note from heaven telling sinners not to worry about it. God’s grace came in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Genesis 50:16–21: Does God Rule over Sin?
9 februari 2019
God rules over sin, but never sins. This truth does not come from John Piper’s ideals, but from the Bible.