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- 15:19, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m A Secret to Fearless Living (Protected "A Secret to Fearless Living" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:19, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N A Secret to Fearless Living (Created page with '{{info}}Brothers, the love of comfort is killing our courage. Prosperity tells us we can have character without conflict, scars of honor without suffering, medals without warfare...')
- 15:14, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m Sermons Change Lives (Protected "Sermons Change Lives" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:14, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N Sermons Change Lives (Created page with '{{info}}Pastor, I know this can be easy to forget in the press and stress of ministry. I know that, on any given Sunday, a dozen thoughts can dominate your head before this one. ...')
- 15:04, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m Wise Leaders Start Well (Protected "Wise Leaders Start Well" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:03, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N Wise Leaders Start Well (Created page with '{{info}}Finishing well is crucial in life and ministry, but it also matters how you start. Of course, the Scriptures include many cautionary tales of good starts and disastrous e...')
- 14:48, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m Rejoice Up, Out, and In (Protected "Rejoice Up, Out, and In" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:47, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N Rejoice Up, Out, and In (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Pattern for Everyday Praise''' <blockquote>I will bless the Lord at all times;<br> his praise shall continually be in my mouth.<br> My soul makes its boast in the L...')
- 14:38, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m Evangelism for Introverts (Protected "Evangelism for Introverts" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:38, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N Evangelism for Introverts (Created page with '{{info}}Street vendors fascinate me. I’ve refused them time without number — but it hasn’t been personal. Deep down, I admire them. I wish I were more like them. They seem...')
- 14:33, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) m A Father’s Guide to Family Vacations (Protected "A Father’s Guide to Family Vacations" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:33, 30 June 2025 (hist) (diff) N A Father’s Guide to Family Vacations (Created page with '{{info}}As vacation season approaches for many families, godly fathers aim to plan time off with holy intentionality. They look to lead their family so that vacation serves God...')
- 02:25, 29 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m What Was Before the Beginning? (Protected "What Was Before the Beginning?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:25, 29 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N What Was Before the Beginning? (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Ways to View God (and Life)''' “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” So said A.W. Tozer in ''Knowledge of...')
- 02:19, 29 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m Do You See God? (Protected "Do You See God?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:19, 29 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N Do You See God? (Created page with '{{info}}Do you see God? Few questions are more important in the life of the Christian, both now and for the satisfaction of our souls forever. Just as one must ask (and answer),...')
- 14:43, 27 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m Do You See Eternity? (Protected "Do You See Eternity?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:43, 27 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N Do You See Eternity? (Created page with '{{info}}When I was a brand-new believer in the 1970s, many Christians eagerly listened to Bible teachers “proving” from Scripture that Christ would return in the 1980s. ''The...')
- 18:41, 7 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m Do You See Your Soul? (Protected "Do You See Your Soul?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 18:41, 7 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N Do You See Your Soul? (Created page with '{{info}}Picture yourself facing one of your typical temptations. A neighbor opens a door for you to say something about Jesus, and the fearful part of you begs silence. A brother...')
- 01:45, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m God of Saving Song (Protected "God of Saving Song" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:45, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) God of Saving Song
- 01:45, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N God of Saving Song (Created page with '{{info}}Music is all around us. Song echoes through creation, resounds in the heavens, and springs from the hearts of those who delight in God. From where does this symphony of s...')
- 01:40, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m God of All Goodness (Protected "God of All Goodness" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:40, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N God of All Goodness (Created page with '{{info}} <blockquote>You are good and do good. (Psalm 119:68)</blockquote> The living God, the only God, the God who always was and always will be, the God in whose presence we...')
- 01:31, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) m Why Does God Seem Silent? (Protected "Why Does God Seem Silent?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:31, 5 May 2025 (hist) (diff) N Why Does God Seem Silent? (Created page with '{{info}}'''How He Works While We Wait''' Suffering can feel overwhelming. But when suffering stretches on with no answer from God, it can feel unbearable. There have been times...')
- 19:48, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Why Your Life Isn’t Working (Protected "Why Your Life Isn’t Working" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 19:47, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) Why Your Life Isn’t Working
- 19:45, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Why Your Life Isn’t Working (Created page with '{{info}}Are you happy? Are you satisfied? You tour the zoo with your daughter and peer into the glass with the gorilla. You stare at the gorilla; he stares back. Are your lives ...')
- 19:35, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Partnering to Plant (Protected "Partnering to Plant" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 19:35, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Partnering to Plant (Created page with '{{info}}'''Seven Ways Churches Can Collaborate''' Church planting is one-half asking people for favors and one-half asking for money. I exaggerate, but not by much. Church plant...')
- 14:57, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Desire Without Ceasing (Protected "Desire Without Ceasing" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:57, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Desire Without Ceasing (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Longing Fuels a Life of Prayer''' <blockquote>This very desire is your prayer, and if your desire is continuous, your prayer is continuous too. The apostle meant ...')
- 14:43, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Teach Me, Help Me, Thrill Me (Protected "Teach Me, Help Me, Thrill Me" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:43, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) Teach Me, Help Me, Thrill Me
- 14:43, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Teach Me, Help Me, Thrill Me (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Guide to the Longest Psalm''' The Grand Canyon is spectacular and vast: 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep. Covering about 1,900 square miles...')
- 14:34, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Do You Fight for Joy? (Protected "Do You Fight for Joy?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:33, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Do You Fight for Joy? (Created page with '{{info}}Almost twenty years after writing what many would call my signature book, ''Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist'', I finally wrote the book I knew I had to ...')
- 14:25, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Laugh Before Devils (Protected "Laugh Before Devils" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 14:25, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Laugh Before Devils (Created page with '{{info}}Once I had a friend who dated this woman. She was nice, as I recall her, smart and extremely studious. She had ambitions to be top of her class. Yet her drive to excel w...')
- 14:04, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Wait on God While the Darkness Lasts (Protected "Wait on God While the Darkness Lasts" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))
- 14:04, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Wait on God While the Darkness Lasts (Created page with '{{info}}The landscape of college ministry has shifted dramatically over the past 25 years. But here in 2025, I’m still consistently receiving the same question that I asked as ...')
- 03:14, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Start Asking God for More (Protected "Start Asking God for More" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 03:14, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Start Asking God for More (Created page with '{{info}}'''Four Reasons We Pray Less''' Praying has always been hard for Christians. I once heard John Stott say that prayer was his greatest struggle in the Christian life, and...')
- 03:06, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Tough and Tender (Protected "Tough and Tender" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 03:06, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Tough and Tender (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Pastors Follow the Good Shepherd''' Jesus, our chief Shepherd, is remarkably tough and remarkably tender — and often at times and in ways we don’t expect. We...')
- 03:00, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) m Back When We Had Friends (Protected "Back When We Had Friends" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 03:00, 7 April 2025 (hist) (diff) N Back When We Had Friends (Created page with '{{info}}'''Why Brothers Still Need Brothers''' Men, do you remember when we had friends? Back when we first asked in our own way, and without shame, ''Will you be my friend?'' ...')
- 01:14, 18 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Go Get Her (Protected "Go Get Her" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:14, 18 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Go Get Her (Created page with '{{info}}'''To Men Delaying Marriage''' On March 27, 1525, Wolfgang Reissenbusch served as a preceptor in the monastery of St. Anthony. This meant Mr. Reissenbusch had vowed to l...')
- 01:06, 18 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m God Forms Us Through Failure (Protected "God Forms Us Through Failure" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 01:06, 18 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N God Forms Us Through Failure (Created page with '{{info}}Most of us love excellence and striving for perfection. We want our surgeon to be the best in the country. We want our professors to be at the top of their field. We want...')
- 02:47, 17 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Shepherding Kids Through the Loss of a Loved One (Protected "Shepherding Kids Through the Loss of a Loved One" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:47, 17 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Shepherding Kids Through the Loss of a Loved One (Created page with '{{info}}For weeks, our two kids practiced reciting verses for the National Bible Bee’s Proclaim Day. When they finally took the stage, their hands trembling and the high ceilin...')
- 02:31, 17 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Be Still and Wonder (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Habits for Hurried Souls''' Sometimes, the solution to our spiritual struggles is less spiritual than we imagined. Maybe you walk in a spiritual wilderness, affl...') (top)
- 02:21, 17 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Is Your Christianity Too Quiet? (Protected "Is Your Christianity Too Quiet?" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 02:21, 17 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Is Your Christianity Too Quiet? (Created page with '{{info}}Is your Christian life too private, too indoorsy? “You are the light of the world,” our Lord declares. “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden” (Matthew 5:14). So...')
- 22:11, 16 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Grow Deep (Protected "Grow Deep" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 22:10, 16 March 2025 (hist) (diff) Grow Deep
- 22:10, 16 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Grow Deep (Created page with '{{info}}'''A Word to Young Men''' You want your life to matter. Maybe you look back with regret at years of trifling or lusting or swearing or drinking. You’ve wasted so much ...')
- 21:14, 6 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Worship Where You Are (Protected "Worship Where You Are" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 21:03, 6 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Worship Where You Are (Created page with '{{info}}'''Five Ways We Suffer Well''' Few chapters in Scripture have impacted me as much as 2 Chronicles 20. God has met me, often through tears, in this passage — a passage ...')
- 17:29, 3 March 2025 (hist) (diff) m Life Will Not Get Easier (Protected "Life Will Not Get Easier" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 17:29, 3 March 2025 (hist) (diff) N Life Will Not Get Easier (Created page with '{{info}}There’s a lie we all want to believe — even against all available evidence. It trades on our God-given capacity for hope. It tempts even those with impeccable theolog...')
- 16:03, 9 January 2025 (hist) (diff) m Honor Your (Elderly) Parents (Protected "Honor Your (Elderly) Parents" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:03, 9 January 2025 (hist) (diff) N Honor Your (Elderly) Parents (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Adult Children ‘Make Some Return’''' Recently, I enjoyed reconnecting with a friend from college who is now sixty-something years old (like me) and who cares ...')
- 15:58, 9 January 2025 (hist) (diff) m Outpray God’s Goodness (Protected "Outpray God’s Goodness" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:57, 9 January 2025 (hist) (diff) N Outpray God’s Goodness (Created page with '{{info}}I wish I could always address God in prayer as Paul did: “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think . . .” (Ephesians 3:20). If ...')
- 20:58, 20 December 2024 (hist) (diff) m The Quiet Strength of Godly Fear (Protected "The Quiet Strength of Godly Fear" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 20:58, 20 December 2024 (hist) (diff) N The Quiet Strength of Godly Fear (Created page with '{{info}}'''Lessons from the Life of Sarah''' History was repeating itself. As the king took Sarah’s trembling hand, leading her away from her husband and into yet another fore...')
- 03:28, 25 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m How to Overlook an Offense (Protected "How to Overlook an Offense" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 03:27, 25 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N How to Overlook an Offense (Created page with '{{info}}“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense” (Proverbs 19:11). In moments of calm, the wise man’s counsel sounds so right, so sa...')
- 16:07, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m When Offenses Come (Protected "When Offenses Come" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:06, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N When Offenses Come (Created page with '{{info}}'''How to Forgive and Move On''' “Can I get your number?” a woman from church asks you. “It would be great to get together sometime. I’ll reach out!” She doesn...')
- 15:56, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m When Your Heart Condemns You (Protected "When Your Heart Condemns You" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:56, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N When Your Heart Condemns You (Created page with '{{info}}The apostle John gives us a phrase full of angst when he writes, “whenever our heart condemns us . . .” (1 John 3:20). Has your heart ever condemned you; shut up your...')
- 15:45, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m Make the Most of Sunday Mornings (Protected "Make the Most of Sunday Mornings" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:45, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N Make the Most of Sunday Mornings (Created page with '{{info}}'''Two Simple Changes''' ''Ah, Sunday.'' That majestic morning when my children awake to the aroma of eggs and bacon and fresh-squeezed orange juice. When they bound dow...')
- 15:34, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m God Calls the Weak to War (Protected "God Calls the Weak to War" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:33, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N God Calls the Weak to War (Created page with '{{info}}'''The Christian Strength of Disability''' The young man was fully engaged in worship: hands raised, eyes closed, mouth wide open in song, completely lost in the moment....')
- 15:22, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) m Forget About Yourself (Protected "Forget About Yourself" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:21, 23 November 2024 (hist) (diff) N Forget About Yourself (Created page with '{{info}}'''Six Paths to Better Thoughts''' C.S. Lewis describes it as the cheerful hallmark of humility. Tim Keller calls it the doorway into freedom. John Piper names it as the...')
- 16:06, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) m Peace Beyond Performance (Protected "Peace Beyond Performance" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 16:06, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) N Peace Beyond Performance (Created page with '{{info}}'''Unshakable Joy for the Ups and Downs''' Which is closer to the center of your life as a Christian: what you’re doing for God, or what God has already done for you t...')
- 15:58, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) m Life Is Too Brief to Waste (Protected "Life Is Too Brief to Waste" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:58, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) N Life Is Too Brief to Waste (Created page with '{{info}}'''Learning to Number Our Days''' As I write, I’m sitting outside my home, basking in a verdant, cloudless midsummer day in Minnesota. The sun-drenched landscape aroun...')
- 15:46, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) m Win Them with Dinner (Protected "Win Them with Dinner" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 15:46, 19 September 2024 (hist) (diff) N Win Them with Dinner (Created page with '{{info}}'''Practicing Hospitality in Post-Christian Places''' In 2015, the Supreme Court (in ''Obergefell v. Hodges'') voted to legalize so-called same-sex marriage in all fifty...')
- 15:12, 9 September 2024 (hist) (diff) N The Marvelous Mundane (Created page with '{{info}}'''Embracing the Slow Work of God''' The young mom is alone with her infant, covered in sweat, urine, and drool. Life feels unremarkable and repetitive. Another load of ...') (top)
- 20:13, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) m Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow (Protected "Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 20:12, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) N Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow (Created page with '{{info}}'''How Shepherds Shape the Sheep''' If I let my 5-year-old have a can of Coke, a bag of Skittles, and half a dozen Oreos right before bed, I shouldn’t be surprised if ...')
- 20:06, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) m Every Marriage Needs a Mission (Protected "Every Marriage Needs a Mission" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 20:06, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) N Every Marriage Needs a Mission (Created page with '{{info}}'''Three Steps for Husbands''' Our typical images of romantic, married love picture a couple facing each other, eyes locked in mutual affection. And for good reason. Ad...')
- 19:59, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) m Beneath the Mountain of Smoke (Protected "Beneath the Mountain of Smoke" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 19:58, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) N Beneath the Mountain of Smoke (Created page with '{{info}}'''Recovering the Awe of Worship''' What happens every Sunday when the church gathers? We meet with God. Do such words still hold weight for you? Some of us arrive late...')
- 19:48, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) m The Resilient Mother (Protected "The Resilient Mother" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite))) (top)
- 19:48, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) N The Resilient Mother (Created page with '{{info}}'''How We Bend Without Breaking''' Along the wooded trail behind my home, a birch tree arches in a graceful curve as it stretches across the pathway. It’s a veteran of...')
- 19:44, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) Friends Who Fell Away (top)
- 19:40, 15 February 2023 (hist) (diff) m Friends Who Fell Away (Protected "Friends Who Fell Away" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite)))
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