Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood (Acts 20:28, ESV). The Barna Organization conducts statistical studies of the church. I’ve subscribed to their services for years for two reasons — first, I enjoy being a geek with […]
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For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:17-18, ESV). Have you ever
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When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language (Psalm 114:1, ESV). Psalm 114 was written just after the Israelites, on their second attempt, entered the Promised Land. The phrase “out from Egypt” has a rich meaning because many times during their wilderness travels, the Israelites wanted to go back
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For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7, ESV). We say the Christian faith. It’s not the Christian sight. What’s the difference? It means that we don’t have to depend on what we can see but on what we can’t see — God — for our salvation, for growing in Christ, and for
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Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? (1 Corinthians 15:54b-55, NLT) My ministry for over 50 years could be summed up as “often in the presence of death.” I’ve been with families losing grandparents, fathers, mothers, teenagers, and infants. Several times a week, I
We find 19 out of 39 books in the Old Testament named after prophets. Including prophets such as Nathan, Elijah, and Elisha, as well as books not named after them, we understand that God used prophets as a primary means of communicating with His people. How about today — we have Scripture — are prophets
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He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible (Colossians 1:15-16a, ESV). Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species on November 24, 1859. The first edition sold out on the day of its release. The book proposed that
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A college professor said to me, while we were discussing the importance of preachers knowing the basics of the Greek language, that “I once heard a man say that anyone with half a brain can read and understand Scripture; well, I’ve heard a lot of sermons by preachers who seemed to have only half a
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Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! (Psalm 96:1, ESV) Reading this psalm, I always sense an inherent meaning: even though my singing is more akin to fingernails on a chalkboard than Phil Wickham, when I find a new song in my heart to sing, that song saves me from
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Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:7, ESV). I wrote Interruption #1 on March 20, 2020, and emailed it at 7:30 a.m. For over five years, I have been writing an Interruption. This one is #1708. With this blog,
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