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Seven Questions to Evaluate Your Progress in the Christian Life
These questions came directly out of a fresh examination of my own life some years ago. When I first raised them it was during a significant year in ministry, having served in the States as long as I...
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Don’t Let False Security Dupe You
I am so easily duped. I’ll admit it, it’s true. I am ridiculously gullible. While getting to know my fiancé’s family at the start of our relationship, I recall his father telling me a number of...
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A Devotional for Your Friday
Take some time this morning to pour over this devotional, brought to you by LifeKEYS Daily. We’ve all gone through tough spiritual seasons when we were tempted to give up. “My feet almost slipped!” we...
View ArticleHow to Spend an Hour (Or Less) On Our New Website
Welcome to our brand new website! When interacting with something new and different, it’s nice to know where to start, isn’t it? We think so. That’s why we created this blog post about getting the best...
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2014 Reader Survey
In 1 Thessalonians 2, Paul expresses his affection for the Christians in that place: So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our...
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How Not to Get Lost in the Hustle and Bustle of Christmas
I have always loved the Christmas season: the sense of anticipation, time with family, hunting for the perfect gift for someone I love, cookie baking, decorating, and all the other rich family...
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A Three-Step Diet to a Healthier Soul
If you are a “New Year’s resolution” kind of a person, the following scenario is probably quite familiar to you: you commit to losing those extra pounds, exercising more; you resolve to be kinder to...
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Episode #4: How Lasting Change Happens
Many of us see behaviors and tendencies within our own hearts that we wish we could change. We wish we were more joyful and less negative, more generous and less selfish, more motivated and less lazy....
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Is Christ Both Necessary and Sufficient for You?
But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (Hebrews 9:26) In mathematics and philosophy, we show something to be true if it meets...
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Four Ways Our Identity in Christ Changes Our Lives
A couple of years ago, while my family was making a quick trip to a department store, one of our children started losing control. Our little boy began to struggle with a verbal and aggressive outburst...
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10 Strategies for Cultivating Meekness
In the sermon “Blessed are the Meek,” Pastor Colin Smith defined meekness as, “The means by which God tames the sinful soul by taming the temper, subduing the assertive self, calming the passions,...
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Bible Q&A: Is the Sabbath Day on Saturday or Sunday?
Question: I have recently found through my Father in heaven that Saturday is the day to worship and exalt the Lord, our Savior. But my mom thinks that I’m going to extreme and my dad says that is...
View ArticleThree Useful Kindergarten Lessons for Christians
All I really need to know…I learned in kindergarten. (Robert Fulghum) I’m a kindergarten teacher. And I think Robert Fulghum was on the right track when he said that all he needed to know he learned in...
View ArticleThree Tests God Ordains for His People
Tests are not for the sake of the teacher, but for the benefit of the student. As a teacher, I don’t ask test questions because I need to know the answers. I ask questions because my students need to...
View ArticleWhat If My Church Doesn’t Preach the Bible?
I remember visiting a church years ago and thinking to myself, When is this pastor going to finish his introduction and get to the text? Before I knew it, the pastor closed in prayer. His...
View ArticleIs the Word of God a Quick Fix?
When you come to God’s Word, are you looking for a “quick fix”? I was struck by the following quotation, as I read through one of Pastor Colin’s sermons from the radio series “The Anatomy of Faith”:...
View ArticleKey Connections (November 17, 2017)
The Flesh is Weak: Pastoral Reflections on Self-Control (Aaron Menikoff, 9Marks) It’s good to remember the fight for self-control. I must fight more. But the fight isn’t the whole story. Self-control...
View ArticleFour Ways We Can Grow in Discernment
We have more content readily available to us today than previous generations could have ever dreamed possible. We’re not lacking information, but we’re always in need of greater discernment. And that’s...
View Article10 Steps of Inductive Bible Study
Psalm 119:130 says “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” One of the ways God unfolds his Word to us is through personal Bible study. One method that I have...
View ArticleCrockpot Churches in a Microwave Culture
Have you ever wanted things to happen faster than they are occurring? Wouldn’t it be great to have a “microwave-accessible” process to speed up relationships, savings accounts, and personal growth?...
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