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Hyper Spiritual
All of us have encountered hyper-spiritual people. Some of them has freaked us out while for some of us we must admit we are hyper spiritual. Hyper spirituality happens when we (usually implicitly) think that obedience to God and giving glory to God is about payback. We turn astonishment over the gospel into fuel for…
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What Gospel Saturated Life looks like
This is what it means to live a gospel-saturated life: it means being so conscious of the greatness of the gospel that changing diapers or cutting the grass is as much as an act of worship as singing a praise chorus in a church service. When we plant Christ’s flag in the dirt of our…
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God Showed Up? Really?
I think we all have said this or heard someone said this of our worship time in church. “Wow, God showed up!!! Felt the presence of God!!!” or ” I felt like the presence of God was not there. He did not show up today.” I think something is wrong with this kind of thinking.…
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Why the Self-Righteous and the Rebellious Sinner are in the Same Boat
If you read through the story of the Prodigal Son, you would see that there was really no stark difference between the two. Both of them needed the same thing. Both of them needed the same God to save them. One was a rebellious sinner while the other one was moralistic and legalistic. But their…
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Satisfaction and How it Reveals What’s Inside Us
We will always prefer lesser satisfaction to the satisfaction of Christ, because the lesser ones appeal to the god of self – a ravenous, insatiable, fickle idol indeed – while satisfaction in Christ requires that we assassinate that god. We won’t know what it really means for the joy of the Lord to be our…