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- 16:26, 16 November 2021 (hist) (diff) N You Are Not Nothing (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways to Pursue Real Humility''' I recently had the incomparable joy of visiting the Grand Canyon. Though ''visit'' isn’t quite the right word, I suppose. You d...')
- 05:00, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) m For God So Warned the World (Protected "For God So Warned the World" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 04:59, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) N For God So Warned the World (Created page with '{{info}}'''How He Keeps the Ones He Loves''' If an old-time preacher, one who believed in uncomfortable realities like the wrath of God, human depravity, and divine judgment, ro...')
- 04:39, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) m Sin Is Not Who You Are (Protected "Sin Is Not Who You Are" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 04:38, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) N Sin Is Not Who You Are (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God''. (2 Corinthians 5:21)</blockquote> A great ...')
- 04:20, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) m Laziness Ruins Happiness (Protected "Laziness Ruins Happiness" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 04:20, 9 November 2021 (hist) (diff) N Laziness Ruins Happiness (Created page with '{{info}}'''What Makes Diligence a Virtue''' Most people do not want to be thought of as lazy — as a person averse to hard work. We all know laziness is a vice — a corrupting...')
- 19:42, 1 November 2021 (hist) (diff) m Live Like You’ll Live Forever (Protected "Live Like You’ll Live Forever" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 19:42, 1 November 2021 (hist) (diff) N Live Like You’ll Live Forever (Created page with '{{info}}The world makes its quiet but furious war against death, groping to live forever. Plastic surgery, obsessive fitness, compulsive dieting, pouring billions into scientific...')
- 02:27, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) m Every Father’s Calling (Protected "Every Father’s Calling" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:27, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) N Every Father’s Calling (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Nurture and Admonish''' We live in a perilous age. What Christian parents haven’t worried about the world they are sending their children into? Depravity is...')
- 02:19, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) m Moms Can Make Disciples (Protected "Moms Can Make Disciples" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:18, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) N Moms Can Make Disciples (Created page with '{{info}}After I had my first child, and all the more after I had my second, I wondered if I would be done with ministry until my kids grew up. I wondered how I could possibly fit...')
- 02:10, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) m Every Other Way Leads to Death (Protected "Every Other Way Leads to Death" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:10, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) N Every Other Way Leads to Death (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why We Keep Sharing Christ''' A man sat along the road where one path broke into ten. A deep fog rested upon the land so no traveler could perceive each path’s end....')
- 02:00, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) m Beware the Anger of Your Soul (Protected "Beware the Anger of Your Soul" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))
- 02:00, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) N Beware the Anger of Your Soul (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Restrain Ungodly Passion''' Every time we reread a great book, we inevitably get something new out of it. This isn’t because the book changes, but because we...')
- 01:51, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Lord Gave and Took Away (Protected "The Lord Gave and Took Away" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:51, 19 October 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Lord Gave and Took Away (Created page with '{{info}}'''Lessons on Suffering from Job''' My fourth miscarriage flattened me. I couldn’t believe it. I’d buried an infant son a few years earlier and was unprepared for ye...')
- 02:27, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Illusion of Normal Days (Protected "The Illusion of Normal Days" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:27, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Illusion of Normal Days (Created page with '{{info}}Life as usual, many will come to realize, was never life as usual. When Christ returns, many will discover too late that they lived within a dream. Years came and years ...')
- 01:53, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Rest Beyond Our Reach (Protected "The Rest Beyond Our Reach" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:53, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Rest Beyond Our Reach (Created page with '{{info}}'''Finding Refreshment in a Burnout Culture''' At the end of his life, my friend David leaned into Christ’s promise of rest. The hope he drew from that promise so comf...')
- 01:40, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) m God Never Makes a Mistake (Protected "God Never Makes a Mistake" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:39, 28 September 2021 (hist) (diff) N God Never Makes a Mistake (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God never makes a mistake''.</blockquote> I vividly remember those words, a chapter title in Evelyn Christenson’s book ''What Happens When Women Pray''...')
- 14:21, 10 September 2021 (hist) (diff) m Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering (Protected "Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:21, 10 September 2021 (hist) (diff) N Ten Words That Changed Everything About My Suffering (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God permits what he hates to accomplish what he loves''.</blockquote> I remember it like it were yesterday. I was fresh out of the hospital, barely out o...')
- 18:42, 1 September 2021 (hist) (diff) m Help Someone Home to Heaven (Protected "Help Someone Home to Heaven" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 18:42, 1 September 2021 (hist) (diff) N Help Someone Home to Heaven (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Walk with the Wayward''' Richard and Andy worked in a factory outside a west Texas town. Andy’s new faith was growing, but he told Richard his drive home was...')
- 20:45, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ (Protected "The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 20:45, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Confusing and Perfect Love of Christ (Created page with '{{info}}My toddler has a little stuffed lamb. When you squeeze him, the lamb sings, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” ''Jesus loves me''. Words simpl...')
- 18:31, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) m Can I Follow My New Heart? (Protected "Can I Follow My New Heart?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 18:31, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) N Can I Follow My New Heart? (Created page with '{{info}}“Why shouldn’t I follow my heart? If I am a Christian — if God has caused me to be ‘born again’ and has given me ‘a new heart’ — isn’t my new heart trus...')
- 18:24, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) m God, Make Me a Force for Good (Protected "God, Make Me a Force for Good" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 18:24, 6 July 2021 (hist) (diff) N God, Make Me a Force for Good (Created page with '{{info}}If you are a follower of Christ, God intends for you to be a force for good in this world. He intends for you not only to rejoice in Jesus’s good work for you, but to b...')
- 15:19, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m Hope Makes a Broken Heart Bigger (Protected "Hope Makes a Broken Heart Bigger" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))
- 15:19, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N Hope Makes a Broken Heart Bigger (Created page with '{info}}Two years after he lost his son, you could tell he had changed. Death had stolen into his family and pierced him, shattered him, broken him. Yet gradually, haltingly, he c...')
- 15:12, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m Devastating Mercy (Protected "Devastating Mercy" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:12, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N Devastating Mercy (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Redeems Our Failures''' As simply worded as the Gospels often seem, the multidimensional Jesus we encounter in them is anything but simple. We can see this ...')
- 15:07, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m We Seek a Better City (Protected "We Seek a Better City" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:07, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N We Seek a Better City (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Liberating Power of Christian Hope''' Among the many hopes challenged, if not dashed, in the last year have been civic hopes. Perhaps we in Minneapolis have felt ...')
- 15:01, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m Assume the Best of Others (Protected "Assume the Best of Others" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:01, 16 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N Assume the Best of Others (Created page with '{{info}}'''Resilient Love in an Age of Suspicion''' I didn’t see the sin until I saw the effect it began to have on my wife. Once vivacious, childlike, radiant, she began to j...')
- 15:59, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m ‘You Did Not Choose Me’ (Protected "‘You Did Not Choose Me’" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:58, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N ‘You Did Not Choose Me’ (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Awakened Me to His Sovereignty''' We’re told that “the word of God is living and active,” that it can cut through the complexities of our inner being ...')
- 15:48, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m Who Might Find God in Your Suffering? (Protected "Who Might Find God in Your Suffering?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:48, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N Who Might Find God in Your Suffering? (Created page with '{{info}}Do you feel prepared today to defend your faith in Jesus? If not, what would it take for you to feel ready? <blockquote>Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in you...')
- 15:25, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Only Certain Hope on Earth (Protected "The Only Certain Hope on Earth" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:25, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Only Certain Hope on Earth (Created page with '{{info}}“It is the hope that kills you,” as many English football (soccer) fans say. Is it not better to have low expectations instead of hoping your team will do well, only ...')
- 15:15, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m If You Could See the End (Protected "If You Could See the End" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:15, 9 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N If You Could See the End (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Story God Writes in Suffering''' A strange grief crept upon me as the final ''Lord of the Rings'' movie came to an end. An unliterary man at the time, I watched t...')
- 15:01, 8 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m Waiting to Be Led (Protected "Waiting to Be Led" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:59, 8 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N Waiting to Be Led (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Steps for Discouraged Wives''' Submitting yourself to the leadership of another sinner is no easy task. As much as we may recognize the necessity of submission ...')
- 16:21, 1 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m When My Quadriplegia Ends (Protected "When My Quadriplegia Ends" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:21, 1 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N When My Quadriplegia Ends (Created page with '{{info}}'''What Makes Me Long for Heaven''' On the morning of my wedding, my helpers laid me on a couch in the church’s bridal salon to dress me in my gown. They heaved and sh...')
- 15:52, 1 June 2021 (hist) (diff) m How to Hear a Sermon Well (Protected "How to Hear a Sermon Well" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:52, 1 June 2021 (hist) (diff) N How to Hear a Sermon Well (Created page with '{{info}}No preacher, upon looking up from his pulpit, hopes to see what I saw mid-sermon one Sunday morning: a man in the last row, head tilted against the back wall, sleeping li...')
- 14:52, 21 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Sometimes God Just Closes Doors (Protected "Sometimes God Just Closes Doors" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:52, 21 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Sometimes God Just Closes Doors (Created page with '{{info}}For the last few years, my body has had a strange relationship with food. By strange, I mean terrible. Rather than providing nutrition, many foods provide me with small d...')
- 16:08, 20 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Let the Little Children Come to Me (Protected "Let the Little Children Come to Me" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:08, 20 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Let the Little Children Come to Me (Created page with '{{info}}'''Invitation to the Weak and Needy''' Leaning against the hood of my car, I didn’t want the date to end. It was late, but the well-lit parking lot outside her apartme...')
- 16:03, 20 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Our God Listens (Protected "Our God Listens" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:03, 20 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Our God Listens (Created page with '{{info}}You have been invited to speak to the God of the universe, the Almighty. Not just the mightiest, but the ''all-mighty''. All power is his, and under his control. And he i...')
- 15:47, 17 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m You Have Need of Endurance (Protected "You Have Need of Endurance" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:46, 17 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N You Have Need of Endurance (Created page with '{{info}}A few months ago, I met a friend for breakfast. When I asked him how he was doing, he answered, “I’m enduring.” If his response doesn’t sound remarkable, it’s ...')
- 15:06, 17 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m When the Ground Gives Way (Protected "When the Ground Gives Way" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:06, 17 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N When the Ground Gives Way (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into ...')
- 20:07, 13 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Mothering at the End of Me (Protected "Mothering at the End of Me" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 20:06, 13 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Mothering at the End of Me (Created page with '{{info}}I entered motherhood with certain expectations. I thought I would be happier than I was, and I thought mothering would come more naturally and easily. I still loved being...')
- 20:03, 13 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m To All Who Need Rest (Protected "To All Who Need Rest" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))
- 20:02, 13 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N To All Who Need Rest (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Jesus Welcomes the Weary''' Life is hard. There is so much that makes us feel weary: our vocational labors, our parenting labors, our ministry labors, our relatio...')
- 22:21, 12 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Strange Task of Witnessing About Light (Created page with '{{info}}Witnessing about light is a strange task if your aim is for people to see the light and believe in the light. Light illumines by itself. When you want someone to see a li...')
- 02:24, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Salt, Suffering, and Satisfaction (Protected "Salt, Suffering, and Satisfaction" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:24, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Salt, Suffering, and Satisfaction (Created page with '{{info}}Try this interpretation of what it means for Christians to be salt. I suggest that being salty as a Christian means at root being so profoundly satisfied by Christ as ou...')
- 02:12, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m ‘Love What Others Have’ (Protected "‘Love What Others Have’" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:11, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N ‘Love What Others Have’ (Created page with '{{info}}One day, as Jesus was teaching, a man in the crowd shouted out, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me” (Luke 12:13). Now, if we had been in that...')
- 01:59, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible (Protected "Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:59, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible (Created page with '{{info}}When I was 12 years old, the Bible came alive to me. I remember staying up late to read it under my covers. I would take it along with me wherever I went, stealing time t...')
- 01:52, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) m Whoever You Are, Christ Can Be Yours (Protected "Whoever You Are, Christ Can Be Yours" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:51, 11 May 2021 (hist) (diff) N Whoever You Are, Christ Can Be Yours (Created page with '{{info}}Few lies have kept more sinners from coming to Christ, whether for the first time or after a terrible fall, than this one: I am an exception to the promises of God. You ...')
- 17:49, 27 April 2021 (hist) (diff) Does God Balance Blessings with Hardships? (top)
- 15:45, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m Honor the Parents God Gave You (Protected "Honor the Parents God Gave You" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:44, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N Honor the Parents God Gave You (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.'' (Exodus 20:12)</blockquote> Why might G...')
- 15:33, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m You Are Still a Mother (Protected "You Are Still a Mother" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:33, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N You Are Still a Mother (Created page with '{{info}}'''To the Woman Whose Baby Has Died''' In March of 2016, our daughter Leila Judith Grace died at 39 weeks and 4 days in the womb. She was stillborn four days later. My h...')
- 15:23, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m What Are Angels Doing Today? (Protected "What Are Angels Doing Today?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:23, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N What Are Angels Doing Today? (Created page with '{{info}}'''Audio Transcript''' ''What are angels up to today? It’s a great question, and it comes to us today from an anonymous listener to the podcast. “Pastor John, hello ...')
- 15:15, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m Four Ways God Leads His People (Protected "Four Ways God Leads His People" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:15, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) Four Ways God Leads His People
- 15:10, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N Four Ways God Leads His People (Created page with '{{info}} I see at least four methods that God uses to leads us in his will. I put them in four "D’s" to help me remember them. '''1) Decree:''' God sovereignly decrees and de...')
- 15:02, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m If We Don’t Love, We Won’t Last (Protected "If We Don’t Love, We Won’t Last" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:02, 26 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N If We Don’t Love, We Won’t Last (Created page with '{{info}}'''Overcoming Offenses in the Church''' <blockquote>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)</blockquote> When Paul wrote these words to ...')
- 14:07, 20 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m Be Diligent to Enter God’s Rest (Protected "Be Diligent to Enter God’s Rest" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:07, 20 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N Be Diligent to Enter God’s Rest (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>Therefore, let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. . . . Since therefore it rem...')
- 16:12, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m The Sweet Grief of Repentance (Protected "The Sweet Grief of Repentance" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:12, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N The Sweet Grief of Repentance (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>''The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise''. (Psalm 51:17)</blockquote> I can still see the mom...')
- 04:22, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m Will I Ever Change? (Protected "Will I Ever Change?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 04:22, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N Will I Ever Change? (Created page with '{{info}}'''Fresh Hope for the Spiritually Stuck''' Years ago I got stranded with a few friends and strangers in the elevator of a tall building. We waited for help to arrive, ch...')
- 04:05, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) m God Has Not Forgotten You (Protected "God Has Not Forgotten You" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 04:05, 19 April 2021 (hist) (diff) N God Has Not Forgotten You (Created page with '{{info}}“God has not forgotten you.” As I heard those words, I was flooded with emotion. I hadn’t realized how much I needed them. As tears streamed down my face, I unders...')
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