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THE BLINDNESS OF IDENTITY
I’m persuaded that many Christians don’t have a Gospel perspective on who they are. This lack of Gospel identity shows up in two ways. First, many Christians underestimate the presence and power of indwelling sin. We don’t see how easily entrapped we are in this...
Condemnation or Conviction?
What is the difference between condemnation and conviction? I have seen a tremendous amount of confusion within the body of Christ on this question. This misunderstanding can have dangerous implications for believers when it comes to repentance of sin, mortification...
Our Calling to “Belong” to Jesus
A Prayer about Our Calling to “Belong” to Jesus And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. Rom. 1:6 Dear Lord Jesus, this one little verse touches something quite big in our lives—the notion of “belonging.” Because so much of life...
You Need A Better Story
Everybody gets stuck. Life can be difficult, painful, and confusing. It's in those confusing seasons of life that we often find ourselves the most stuck, unable to change and move forward with our lives. I hate being stuck. Solving Stuck Like you, I've been stuck a...
Crying into your Pillow
The Two Foster Twins Don Carson, the great New Testament scholar from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, tells the story of one of his colleagues who was a foster parent. He and his wife would take children into their home and keep them until they could be placed...
The Gospel and the Imperfect Marriage
According to Merriam-Webster, perfectionism can be defined as follows: A disposition to regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable; especially the setting of unrealistically demanding goals accompanied by a disposition to regard failure to achieve them as...
I Have Not Forgotten
I imagine this might be from Jesus to us. “I have not forgotten. You may have forgotten that I think more about you than you do. You may have forgotten that your dreams are even more important to me than they are to you. You may have forgotten that your life is as...
Who….. me??
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls and, upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it (Matt 13:45-46). “The kingdom is compared to the merchant who seeks the pearl, not the pearl itself. It is of...
Christ Is Our Treasure, Not Our Homes
The home exists for Christ. Our marriages, our children, our physical spaces — all these are means of joyful response to Him. Through the home, we treasure Christ and show others how to treasure Him also (Titus 2:3–5; Proverbs 31:10–31). Too often, however, we...
Addiction
The dynamic of addiction is that if you look to something that God created, to give you what it wasn’t intended to give you, either you get discouraged quickly and wisely abandon those hopes, or you go back again and again, and in so doing, you begin to travel down...