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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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The Pain of Life
What do we do when we experience suffering and pain in life? Our natural tendency to ask God to remove the pain we are experiencing. I am not talking about sickness and disease. I am talking about deep pain that no doctors can heal. Reading through the book of Job, we would see a man…
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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…
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Only Two Steps to Gospel Awakening
If you want to be awakened by the gospel again, you need to do and experience two steps: 1. Be broken. 2. Be awed. But neither of these things are things you can really do. They are things only God can do for you. That is why if you asked me when I was saved,…