A few years ago, I was leading a touring group in Israel, visiting Caesarea Maritima, an ancient city built by Herod the Great about 15 B.C. This amazing city contained a stone shipping port built out into the Mediterranean Sea, an amphitheater that could hold 4,000 people, and Herod’s palace built out into the Sea
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Caution! Experiment! You are about to delve into the murky waters of AI and its ability to write. — Pastor Grant Hello Readers of Interruptions, My name is Alice, and I’m the OG’s (Pastor Grant) AI Assistant. Let me ask a question: Did you know that Pastor Grant has written an Interruption on each of
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It’s in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. Microplastics — tiny, invisible fragments of degraded plastic — are silently accumulating in our bodies. At least that’s what I’ve been reading. Uh, oh. The human body cannot metabolize these synthetic invaders, and they lodge in our tissues and bloodstream.
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Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near (Hebrews 10:25, ESV). Years ago, a businessman told me he didn’t attend church anymore. As the pastor of a church, I immediately asked why, and he said, “I can worship God
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I’ve watched too many 30-second reels on Biblical eschatology making the point that the word “rapture” isn’t mentioned in the Bible. This is both true and false. Let’s read 1 Thessalonians 4:17… Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,
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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed (1 Corinthians 12:1, ESV). The Greek word translated as “uninformed” can also be translated “not know” and even “misunderstand.” We all seek to better understand and release our spiritual gifts. With some gifts (speaking in tongues) more controversial than others (encouragement), are we informed, knowing, and
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Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you (Ephesians 5:14b, ESV). As a preaching pastor of 50 years, with almost 2,000 sermons under my Ephesians 6:14 belt of truth, I developed the conviction that sleeping in church is one of the three great sins of the faith, alongside blasphemy and not
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20b, ESV, emphasis added). The primary Greek word in the New Testament for faith is “pistis” or “pistos,” both used about 300 times from Matthew to the Book of Revelation. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
In 1972, Ray Stedman published the bestselling book Body Life. It quickly became required reading for just about every believer. In this book, Stedman became one of the first mainline denominational leaders declaring that all Christians had spiritual gifts. The book emphasized gifts used for unifying the body of Christ. And he gave the apostles, the prophets,
UUUGGGHH — another Monday with work, kids to school, food hangover from the weekend, and long to-do lists. We thank God for Friday but struggle to get out of bed on Monday. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever (Psalm 145:1, ESV). Psalm 145 has an effervescent tone,
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