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Holiness… that’s a thing, right?
Holiness has never been just about the outward. The outward may look different at times… but for an inward reason.
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The Lord’s Name in Vain
What does it mean to NOT “take the Lord’s name in vain?”
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The sex talk
When you preach through the Bible with a systematic style of having the text in front of you, those really tough places will pop up from time to time. Eventually, you get to passage you’d rather skip over. 1 Thess. 4 is one of those places. Paul won’t avoid it. Neither should we. And my question is just very, very…
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The call really is to live differently
I am working my way through Leviticus… intentionally… Leviticus 18-20 and 1 Peter 1 offer similar exhortations: Where you are headed and how you succeed depends on the relationship you have with God. Live differently. You do NOT have to live like the people in that land. What 1 Peter reminds us in a very sober way is that although we haven’t…
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The place of holiness
I know I can be concerned about the spiritual place of others. It may be the hazards of the job as a pastor. When I get so caught up with the spiritual place of others, the Lord gently (or not so gently) reminds me that maybe I should be concerned about the place of holiness in my own life.
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I am Ruined!
5 I said, “Mourn for me; I’m ruined! I’m a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips. Yet I’ve seen the king, the Lord of heavenly forces!” (Isa. 6:5, CEB) Advent is the powerful story of Christ coming to us. It also needs to remind us of the state of our own affairs. We are…
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One Powerful Prayer of Jesus
John 17 is Jesus praying for his disciples. It is beautiful. In v. 17 I find one of the most powerful sentences in that prayer, with three incredibly powerful words. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. Sanctify: to make holy. To set apart. To consecrate. Truth: not just making correcting statements. It is living in Christ. It living…
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The Path to Holiness
We want “holiness” is a few easy steps. Holiness might be “possible” in a few steps, but they aren’t easy. Our affections have to be turned. Holiness comes when our affections are on Christ and not our own agendas. Our vision is full of Christ, and rid of this world’s agenda. We need the taste of the Kingdom in our…
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The High Calling of Holiness
What images come to your mind when the word “holiness” is used? Have we, as believers, given up on “being holy?” 13 Therefore, once you have your minds ready for action and you are thinking clearly, place your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 Don’t be conformed to your former desires, those…
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God’s Best is Not Always What We Have in Mind
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or…
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