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  • Unleash It

    Unleash It

    Here I sit, recovering from a bad bout with food poisoning where the food won the first round. When your guts ache, news-watching seemed all the more painful, especially the blind and trendy attacks on the simple Good News that Jesus saves souls. But the message, simple as it is, is powerful beyond measure and in no danger

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  • The Perfect Church

    The Perfect Church

    I think that I shall never see  A Church that’s all it ought to be; A Church whose members never stray Beyond the Strait and Narrow way; A Church that has no empty pews, Whose Pastor never has the blues, A Church whose Deacons always deak, And none is proud, and all are meek. Where

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  • The Weapon that Wins the Culture War

    How is culture war be won? How is it lost? The answer for both is the same—the church. So how does victory come? One Boston professor nailed it… “America has the most wise and just and most Biblical and moral and constitutional foundation in the world—just like ancient Israel. America is one of the most

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  • Why There is a Universe

    Why There is a Universe

    Where did everything come from? Such a big question requires a bigger answer (though not always a popular one). Of course I’m speaking of God. Why are we here? There are many ways people might answer this question, but the bottom line is perhaps the biggest one of all—and it even reveals why we have a universe… “He works on us in all sorts of

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  • The Church is a training camp and supply depot for soldiers and servants in the deadliest war ever waged, a hospital for casualties and defectors in which we are its nurses and chaplains, a weight room for the weak, a mess hall for the hungry and a power plant for the Light for the world. To drift from this is to forfeit a war

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  • The Church That Was (A Long Time Ago)

    (Since the Author of Hebrews told Jesus’ followers to “provoke one another to love and good deeds”, here are some provocations I collected over the years that I hope to launch every day or two. Blessings and provocations upon you. —j) Aristides watched Christians. He lived in the early 2nd century AD, and he saw believers who believed and who

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