#storychanging
MONDAY— Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 2:3 Another worship leader renounces faith in Christ. A former pastor comes out as proudly gay. A promising evangelist becomes an atheist. What’s happening? They refused to endure suffering as a good soldier of Christ, as Paul exhorted Timothy to…
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Bullied by Fear MONDAY— For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 Fear is sweeping our world at break-neck speed. Our access to information makes us more vulnerable to fear than any generation before us. We know a tornado…
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For some reason, Christians have begun to tiptoe around an area God does not tiptoe around. Sexuality has become the god of our culture and we should not be afraid to call it out. This new god has even bought stock in some so-called churches, teaching mantras that sound like this: You can define sexuality…
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Wouldn’t it be great if life was like a buffet? We could stroll along and give our orders to the servers: “I’ll have some financial prosperity over there,” we would say. “Give me a big helping of relaxation and another of fun…oooh, I like the looks of that spouse over there and a couple of…
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No matter who asked him, the response was the same: a toothless grin, a twinkle in his eye, and the words, “I know what’s comin’!” He’d never missed a day as a janitor in the fourteen-story glass office complex. On that meager salary he had raised five children and then he and his wife began…
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To those who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32 Most people have heard the latter part of this verse, but few quote the former—and that puts it in context. Jesus…
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“…each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment… ” – Hebrews 9:27 Humanity has invented dozens of outlandish scenarios to make itself feel better about death. The Bible is clear, but the idea of death and then judgement makes us uncomfortable. So we’ve created ideas like Purgatory (where you get a second…
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