What is Worldliness?
What is Worldliness? While every believer agrees that we are not supposed to be worldly, our understanding of what that entails is diverse and conflicted. For some, it means a…
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Duty or Delight: What Should Motivate Our Obedience and Service?
Duty or Delight: What Should Motivate Our Obedience and Service? Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger…
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Euphemism, Shame, and the Loss of our Moral Compass
Euphemism, Shame, and the Loss of our Moral Compass From time immemorial, shame has been a source of moral discipline and training at the personal and societal levels. When people…
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Heavenly Rewards as Motivation for Holiness
Heavenly Rewards as Motivation for Holiness Because Paul bases his call to the Christian life on the truth of what Christ has accomplished for us in his death and resurrection…
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When God is Silent: Seeing Him Who is Invisible
When God is Silent: Seeing Him Who is Invisible In his book, Enduring Divine Absence[1], Joseph Minch makes the point that the allurement of atheism does not rest only in…
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Death, Thou Shalt Die
Death, Thou Shalt Die “A family of five died in an auto crash after a faulty vehicle veered off its lane to crush them.” “A young woman died during childbirth”…
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What Does it Mean to Love God?
What Does it Mean to Love God? While we love to talk about the love of God and how he has manifested that love towards us in innumerable ways, we…
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“If then I be a father, where is mine honour?”
“If then I be a father, where is mine honour?” I was surfing through Twitter one day when someone made a joke using Prophet Muhammed’s name (I can’t remember the…
Continue ReadingSuffering and Sanctification: How God Purifies Us Through Our Trials
Suffering and Sanctification: How God Purifies Us Through Our Trials Trials are difficult to bear. But when we believe we are supposed to be immune to them, they become even…
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World-Affirming and World-Denying: The Paradox of the Christian Life
World-Affirming and World-Denying: The Paradox of the Christian Life Why is it that Christians can heartily sing, “This is my father’s world”[1] and “Is this vile world a friend to…
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