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While You Can
There are things you can do now that you won't be able to do later. Whether it involves an opportunity that has a deadline or age taking its toll on you, there is only so much time we each have to do certain things. But what about things that we can normally do later?...
Repenting of Your Good Works
A few days ago I was talking with some friends about repentance. Repentance means changing your mind about something. Then someone mentioned how you need to repent of your good works as much as your sinful ones. That's true. Anyone's righteousness before God, even...
Open Discussion
A lot of people are not allowed to openly discuss their thoughts, feelings, opinions, concerns, questions, doubts, and convictions. I have been very fortunate to have grown up in a place and in a family that didn't make me feel like I couldn't have questions and...
A Look at Christian Language
We Christians often use phrases and terms in church and with each other that make little to no sense outside of our circle: born again; washed in the blood; cleansed by the Lamb; death is like sleeping; the dead shall rise again. When you have no context for those...
Life Climbing
I went indoor rock climbing with a few friends over the weekend, and while there I heard a kid say something to her friend as they climbed: "Sometimes you have to go lower to go higher." And then I thought about how that's not just true for rock climbing, that's true...
More Practice
This last Sunday evening some friends, my brother, and I were playing Spikeball at a church fellowship. We weren't very good at it. We figured out the net was a little loose, then after we fixed it we found we couldn't blame the net anymore! But after a lot more tries...