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The image of God in others
“I can never know in advance how God’s image should appear in others. That image always takes on a completely new and unique form whose origin is found solely in God’s free and sovereign act of creation. To me that form may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every person in the image of God’s Son, the Crucified, and…
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Jesus is coming back… are we SURE we want that?
Advent is about hope. True. It is about holding on in the darkness. True. There is the focus on Jesus coming again, and that has a lot of sentimentality for us in the West. We feel relieved because of all our perceived slights over the years. (The government is coming to get us, silence us, make us quit saying “Merry…
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Our cultural blindness
Over the past several years I have become more aware of a blindness we carry in the American white evangelical church regarding sin.
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Prayers for the church
I reflect often on how the prayers of those who have gone before are so helpful to start words for me. It is true in this time when the American church is being shaken. The shaking comes NOT from the culture and some perceived persecution. The shaking comes from the Spirit because the American church is in deep trouble and…
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Warning to the white American conservative church
This passage leapt into my spirit as the Spirit said, “This is the warning for the self-righteous church in America.” Matthew 3:7-12 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with…
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The winnowing process of the Kingdom of God
There are two passages of Scripture I came through in my reading this week that describe what I am “seeing” in prayer during this time in our culture and the American Church. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.…
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The foolishness of lacking compassion
The things I don’t get list just got a new number hit.
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Our true fear
Our true fear as culturalized Christians is we like power and provision. We’re doing well. We’re in the spheres of influence. To give that up willingly is an abhorrent thought.
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The deceit in our heart
I am writing/praying my way through Acts right now and come to Acts 5 where Ananias and Sapphira lie about the amount they are giving in the offering and God strikes them dead. We have so many questions about why God struck them dead. This thought occurs to me this time around in my reading: Too often we’re bothered by…
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