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Love is a Choice

Love is a Choice

Love makes the world go ’round.” “All you need is love.” “Love can make you crazy . . .” As long as any of us can remember, poems, songs, films, and orators have tried to adequately describe and express love. Movies and TV programs focus on the pursuit of love and...

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The Incomprehensible God

The Incomprehensible God

According to legend, Augustine of Hippo was walking along the beach when he came upon a boy scooping up water with a shell. The two of them struck up a conversation and Augustine asked the boy what he was doing; he replied that he was emptying the sea. Augustine tried...

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Jesus’ Love for Deniers

Jesus’ Love for Deniers

Peter had been following Christ as one of His disciples for years. From that early moment by the seashore when Christ first called Peter (Matt. 4:18-20), Peter had followed Jesus faithfully—until his moment of denial. Peter loved Jesus. He prided himself on the fact...

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8 Skills to Help Your Kids Spend Wisely

8 Skills to Help Your Kids Spend Wisely

How do we teach our kids to spend smart? It starts with taking them with us when we shop in stores or sitting them down with us when we shop online and talking them through what we’re doing to spend wisely. There are various ways to help your kids spend wisely. The...

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Three Reasons to Help Churches Die

Three Reasons to Help Churches Die

Researchers agree the American Church is shrinking rapidly. People are leaving the church in droves. There are few exceptions to this cultural phenomenon impacting every aspect of the Christian life. The tsunami of change is decimating institutions, including...

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The Ultimate Source of Recovery: The Bible

The Ultimate Source of Recovery: The Bible

In 1977 I began working with alcoholics, drug addicts and those with psychiatric problems. Being a Christ follower in secular settings with worldly theories and practices was not easy.  In 1988 I founded NewLife Treatment Centers and we operated 32 Christian NewLife...

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What Do You As a Christ Follower Smell Like?

What Do You As a Christ Follower Smell Like?

I was what you might call a liquid nitrogen convert to Christianity. If you have ever bumped into anyone who has “seen the light,” you know what I am talking about—very excited, very passionate, tons of energy, and fully committed at the start. That was me—all jacked...

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Negative News, Growing Churches

Negative News, Growing Churches

Pastors, If you’re listening to the mainstream media and their negative news, you’d never know that churches across America are growing at such an encouraging rate. Unless... ...You noticed the parking lots on the way to your own church — they’re packed! (Even my own...

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Bible Or Theology: Which Is Infallible?

Bible Or Theology: Which Is Infallible?

Infallibility. Does the word feel dense and tired and kind of irrelevant to you, like a library book that’s sat on the shelf too long? It does to me. But it speaks of that which cannot fail us. Literally, it means “the inability to fail.” It speaks of that which can...

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Sanctify Your Achilles’ Heel

Sanctify Your Achilles’ Heel

One of the mightiest heroes of Ancient Greece was the famed Achilles. According to legend his mother, Thetis, held him by his heel and dipped him into the river Styx in an attempt to make him invincible. Unfortunately for Achilles, the heel by which his mother held...

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The Gift of Pastoral Leadership

The Gift of Pastoral Leadership

Recently I was in Quebec, ministering among French Canadian baptists. I was stunned to learn that in a denomination of roughly 100 churches, almost three dozen are without a pastor. What a different context than many of us are familiar with! In a place where the...

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The Bible’s Investment Plan

The Bible’s Investment Plan

The Bible contains more than 2,300 verses that deal with money. Jesus talks about money in eleven of his thirty-nine parables. This topic matters to God. What he says in the Bible is what we’re called to live by. Invest in God’s Word first. Invest in God’s work...

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Liturgical Renewal

Liturgical Renewal

In the aftermath of the recent fragmentation and decline of the church, a growing number of evangelicals in the United States are seeking to find identity and spiritual renewal in the retrieval of ancient church tradition for contemporary faith, especially in the area...

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Doubt Your Doubts

Doubt Your Doubts

When we are seeking to understand something as big as God, it’s normal to have doubts along the way. We don’t typically have much choice in whether we struggle with some doubts in this process, but we do make choices in how to deal with the doubt. My claim is that...

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This I Believe

This I Believe

In every generation, we face the danger of longing for the past while fearing the future. And this mix of nostalgia and fear leads us into a state of complacency—a mission-less faith. We file in and out of the sanctuary week after week, content to recite the same...

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