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4 years

George Floyd. Not another name, not another statistic, not a news story. He is a man made in the image of God. Church rise up, silence is not an option. God has commissioned us to represent him in the face of injustice. Speak out. Lord please intervene. Lord help us!

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This pandemic, or any other form of trouble, doesn’t make us more dependent on God, it simply reveals to us how dependent we have always been.

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If you are a Christian and the thing you mediate on and celebrate the most is politics and not the gospel, you have lost your way. (Psalm 1)

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Just in case you wondered, God’s mercies will be new every morning in 2022.

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No, your world is not out of control, it’s just out of your control.

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4 years

If you’re greeted every morning with God’s new mercies, shouldn’t you greet the people around you the same way.

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When you pray, remember that the power of prayer is not in the beauty of the words or the righteous deeds of the one praying, but in the character and power of the one being prayed to.

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Confession of weakness is a sign of spiritual maturity. It’s the immature who hold onto the delusion of independent strength.

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It’s important to remember that Jesus said that others will know we are Christians, not by the degree of our theological correctitude, but by our love for one another.

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The Bible isn’t a book of heroes. No, it’s the story of one hero, everyone else was flawed and needy, only made usable and strong by the grace and power of God.

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Jesus predicted that in this world, between the “already” and the “not yet,” we would experience trouble, but then said we don’t have to give way to fear because he has overcome the world.

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6 years

God will interrupt your journey, devastate your dreams, he’ll plunder your plans, all because he knows that what he wants for you is better.

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2 years

If your theology produces proud theological always-rightism and not humble teachability, it’s bad theology.

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6 years

It is important today to humbly admit that the greatest danger in your life doesn’t exist outside of you, in the people and situations in your life, but inside of you, in the thoughts and desires of your heart. That’s why you need a Savior.

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7 years

It is always spiritually dangerous to allow yourself to be more upset by the sin of the people around than you are with your own sin.

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4 years

Peace does not come from your distance from trouble, but rather from the nearness of your Savior.

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3 years

Your job isn’t to figure out God’s secret will, but to humbly submit to his revealed will in his Word and he’ll take care of what’s next for you.

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Love for your neighbor means caring deeply about things that do not touch you or effect you in any way.

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It is a grave mistake to ask human love to do for you what only God’s love can do.

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4 years

The darkest of days in human history resulted in the brightest of hope for all who believe.

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2 years

There is never a day in your life where you shouldn’t celebrate the resurrection.

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4 years

God is quite willing to interrupt your comfort in order to reclaim the allegiance and submission of your heart.

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A borrowed manger at birth, a borrowed tomb at his death, he did not come to own or possess, but to give his life as a ransom for many.

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2 years

Relationships are most healthy when you grant to the other person the grace God has so generously given you.

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6 years

Christian maturity is not about acting as if you’re strong for the battle, but about admitting weakness to yourself, confessing it to God and running to him for strength for the fight that only he can give.

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No pandemic has the power to alter or remove the most precious things in your life, your relationship with your Savior and his eternal grace.

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2 years

Prayer is an act of submission before it is a list of requests.

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3 years

The empty tomb is the ultimate argument that God can and does bring wonderful things out of tragic things.

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3 years

You and I will never have a day where grace is not an absolute necessity.

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4 years

The God who rules all things is not rattled by the chaotic affairs of man. His plan marches on.

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2 years

You’ll never understand your life as God’s child until you understand that God uses hardship to produce holiness.

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2 years

Study of the Bible is not just for theological reflection, but for heart exposure, correction and transformation.

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6 years

Christian maturity is not about arriving at the point where you no longer need grace, but about a deeper sense of need for and appreciation of the grace you’ve been given.

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1 year

All to Him I owe.

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5 years

Biblical literacy is a beautiful thing, but it does not alleviate your daily need for rescuing, forgiving and transforming grace.

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2 years

Sin is rooted in the thought that somehow you are smarter than God.

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5 years

Let’s be clear, theological knowledge does not have the power to make our hearts clean, only God’s grace has the power to do that.

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2 years

There is only one ruler who will never be voted out of office, who is perfect in every way, who is the hope of the universe and whose kingdom will never end.

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2 years

You will not always understand why God brings something into your life, what you can understand is that he is wise, loving, good, kind and full of grace.

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4 years

God will surprise you and confuse you, but he will never, ever abandon you.

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3 years

Your job will fail you, people will fail you, success will fail you, you will fail you, but Jesus will never, ever fail you.

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2 years

God will surprise you and confuse you, but he will never, ever fail you.

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6 years

Begin this year reminding yourself that when you are exhausted, God isn’t, when you are discouraged, God isn’t, when you are unfaithful, God isn’t, when you are weak, God isn’t. We have hope and a future because God isn’t like us!

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No sin will make your Savior turn away in disgust, no weakness will make him want to give up, no struggle will make him feel his grace has been given in vain. He will not give up, will not forsake you, he will complete what he has begun.

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3 years

Christians should be the most consistently thankful people on earth.

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9 years

There simply is no relationship, no location, no situation, no sin or struggle that sits beyond the reach of God's amazing grace.

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4 years

It is so good to remember that our Lord doesn’t change with the changing of the year.

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4 years

No matter how much you grow in grace, you will still need to grow in grace.

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7 years

When you begin to admit how much you need God's grace, you become much more willing to give grace to the people near you who need it too.

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4 years

If you’re God’s child, be thankful today that this this groaning, pandemic-susceptible, broken world is not your final destination.

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4 years

How amazing is it to consider that that baby in the manger created the woman who gave birth to him?

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4 years

At the root of every sin is the worship of something other than God.

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6 years

Sinners tend to respond sinfully to being sinned against, that’s why if you’re patient, kind and forgiving, in the face of other’s sin, you know that grace has visited you.

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Hope is not found in knowing the future, but in resting in the one who not only knows it, but rules it with power, grace and faithfulness.

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If God, in Christ, took care of your past and guaranteed your future, you can rest assured he will take care of you right here, right now.

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6 years

It’s grace that called you, grace that keeps you, grace that will finally deliver you. It’s all grace, all the time, all the way.

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You can’t believe in the sovereignty of God and be anxious every time you face something unexpected or that you can’t control.

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4 years

Your life isn’t held in the hands of an impersonal, powerful virus, but in the hands of your Almighty and eternally loving Lord.

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It is a good time to remember and be comforted by the amazing truth that, by grace, your citizenship is in heaven.

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2 years

The beautiful thing about God’s grace is that it meets you where you are and takes you where God knows you need to be.

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2 years

God is in complete control of all those things that are out of your control and that cause you fear and worry,

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6 years

No you cannot lose your salvation, because you can’t lose what was not gained by you, is not kept by you and is, in its entirety, a work of Another.

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4 years

When you are acknowledging your own sin, it’s harder to be disgusted by other sinners.

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4 years

When everything seems to change in an instant, it is important to remember that your Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever.

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4 years

In a loud-noise outrage culture a grace-filled gentle answer is a radical, powerful thing.

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4 years

No tree has ever been decorated with more glory than the tree on Calvary.

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You cannot love Jesus and at the same time be casual about what sent him to the cross.

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No matter how big your spiritual struggles are, God’s grace is bigger.

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When Satan whispers in your ear, “You aren’t strong enough, “ say, “You are right, but Jesus is enough and he is always with me, providing what I need, when I need it.”

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4 years

Grace means that in your most unfaithful moment, God’s faithful love for you does not waver.

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3 years

You can be theologically aware and biblically literate and still be serving idols in your life.

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4 years

We awake today to another day of mercy, because our Lord is patient, kind and forgiving.

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2 years

If you could defeat sin on your own there would be no manger, no cross and no empty tomb.

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3 years

Grace means your weakness is not a tragedy, but rather a workroom for the Redeemer.

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4 years

He is not working to make you comfortable, but to transform you. The uncomfortable places are places of grace, where redeeming love is doing the good work that was promised.

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2 years

The darkest of all days for Jesus was the brightest of all days for fallen humanity.

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3 years

You cannot stand at the tomb of Jesus and question whether sin is that serious.

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3 years

Theology that does not produce a humble heart of love is bad theology.

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4 years

If sin is the problem, then you need something more powerful to defeat it than education, politics, etc. You need the renovation of the heart that only God’s grace can accomplish.

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4 years

Until sin is no more, new morning mercies are your only hope.

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6 years

Here’s how amazing grace is. Even on your very worst, self-absorbed, rebellious, complaining day, God still showers you with his perfect love.

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6 years

Read your Bible, there is only one hero there, the Lord Almighty, everyone else is just like us, weak, broken and in need of an ongoing supply of redeeming grace.

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Humility is admitting, when people are critical of you, that if they really knew you and were able to look into your heart, they would have even more reason for criticism and concern.

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Grace will expose your sin, never to mock you, but to forgive and deliver you.

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When a bill is paid, it’s paid, nothing you add to it will make it more paid, so it is with our acceptance, forgiveness and present standing before God. Jesus paid the price, our obedience doesn’t pay anything toward what has already been fully paid.

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Complaining is never just horizontal, every complaint has verticality to it. Embedded in complaining are questions of God’s wisdom, his nearness, his compassion, his faithfulness, his goodness and his love.

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Look horizontally and so many things seem out of control. Look vertically and everything is under perfectly wise, righteous and loving control.

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Because God loves you, he will continue to expose the dark places in your heart, not to shame you, but to draw you to his cleansing and transforming grace.

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2 years

If you want to develop strong resistance against temptation, spend time in God’s Word.

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7 years

You wake up this morning to a Father who is never surprised, never confused, never discouraged, never weary and never considers quitting.

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If God is good, and he is, then whatever pathway he calls us to walk is good, even if that good isn’t obvious to us as we walk that road.

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6 years

Nothing in creation (not your spouse, children, friends, job, possessions, etc) was designed to give you identity, no, the function of created things is to point you to the One in whom identity can be found.

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4 years

The good stuff God produces in you most often grows out of the hard stuff you didn’t want to go through,

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3 years

If you fail to connect the manger and the cross, you’ve failed to understand the Christmas story.

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6 years

On the day following the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., I have a personal confession to make. The gospel that I have held so dear has been, in reality, a truncated and incomplete gospel. Here's what I mean