“Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.”, Jesus said. There is much to say about this statement, but one surface-level truth that falls right out of that teaching is that those things that cost us a lot of treasure are the things that will grab our hearts. Or, another way of saying […]
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Advent brings out an interesting mixture of emotions for me. On one hand, I remember the Decembers of my childhood and the anticipation of Christmas, presents, and an obscene number of cookies. As I’ve grown older, though, I’ve been initiated into “grown-up Christmas.” Finances can pinch. Weather can threaten. But more than anything, Advent is
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Do you believe in the supernatural? A survey from 2004 showed that thirty-nine percent of those living in the UK consider themselves atheists or agnostics.(1) Yet a more recent poll found that, while many of those in Britain are abandoning Christianity, their interest and faith in spirituality hasn’t gone anywhere. Over half (fifty-five percent) of
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Recently I made a three-week trip to Kenya with a good friend of mine. We went to meet pastors that we have been partnering with, preach the word in their churches and to learn more about the culture. It was an exploratory trip. What we saw and learned blew us away. We visited some fourteen
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The common argument goes that if you were born in India, you would most likely be a Hindu. If you were born in Saudi Arabia, then you would most likely be a Muslim. If you were born in a Christian family, you would most likely be a Christian. From this, skeptics would conclude: your Christian
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In my last post I talked about the first of three reasons for every Christian to use apologetics: that it helps us to reach unbelievers. We saw this happening in the Gospels and Acts. Today’s post is about exploring the other two reasons for using apologetics: Shaping culture and strengthening believers. I don’t think I’m
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