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The Framing of a Commission
When most Christians think of the Great Commission, we tend to think primarily in terms of evangelism. We hear Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:18-20 and focus on the command to “go.” Certainly, sharing the gospel is part of what Jesus is commanding, but the commission itself is far…
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Signs of the Times
I’ve written about this before, but it just keeps coming up. Signs … sometimes they just baffle me. They’re trying to tell me something significant (Get it? “Signs” … “significant” … never mind.) but I just seem to get bogged down in their content. Like, “No Right Turn.” That…
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Truly, Truly
Scripture writers didn’t have nice printers that produce printouts with italics or bold print, so they had to come up with other methods of emphasis. For instance, we read that God is “Holy, holy, holy” … twice (Isa 6:3; Rev 4:8). Biblical scholars suggest that’s like “holy,…
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News Weakly - 10/31/2026
The Latest Weapon In Kenya, at least 22 people were killed and another 24 injured when a bus and a truck collided. Sadly, most of the passengers were returning from a funeral. In Spain, another 83 people were injured when a bus plunged down a 65-foot hillside after colliding…
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Halloween Again
Halloween is coming, a time of parties and costumes and a time of dark thoughts and scary ideas. I was leading a Bible study in the early 2000s at the house of a coworker. Halloween was around the corner and we were discussing it. The coworker expressed how dangerous he thought…
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Happy All The Day?
I love Isaac Watts hymns. They're clever and theological and ... mostly correct. One I have a small problem with is At the Cross . He says it was at the cross where he, by faith received his sight, "And now I am happy all the day!" Really? One of the subtle distinctions that…
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Deserve?
Singer Lauren Daigle sings a song titled Love Like This . It explores the idea of the awe of being loved unconditionally by God. In the song, she repeats the question, “What have I done to deserve love like this?” And I think of McDonald’s “You deserve a break today”…
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Encouragement
Peter wrote, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you; but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of…
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When You Pray
Prayer is one of those things that every Christian talks about, yet many of us struggle to understand what it really is. We often treat it as an emergency hotline, something we reach for when life falls apart. But when I read Scripture, I see something much deeper. Prayer is not…
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Love Like That
In the upper room that last Passover that Jesus celebrated with His disciples, He had a lot to say. One important thing He said was this: "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life…
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News Weakly - 10/24/2026
Unclear on the Concept President Trump is at it again. He wants to rename “New Mexico” to “New America.” I think he’s missing the point. We have “New York” and “New Jersey” and “New Hampshire.” They’re named for York and Jersey and Hampshire ... England . They were created as a…
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By Design
I still remember something my first-semester biology professor told the class. “You will likely see a lot of things in this class that look like design. Just remember, just because it looks like design doesn’t mean it is.” Whether one ultimately agrees with his conclusion or…
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The Authentic Christian
Jesus said that the world would recognize His disciples by their love for one another. "By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35). That statement is often quoted, and rightly so. Love is a defining characteristic of…
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Accumulation of Errors
One of the realities of construction is that a structure does not usually fail because of one massive measurement error. More often, a wall ends up badly out of alignment because a series of tiny errors accumulate over time. Each individual mistake seems insignificant. A…
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Self-Sufficient
It wasn’t my finest hour. I had a crisis and I was stuck. I did what I should do and prayed. “Please, God, I don’t know what to do. Please … give me guidance.” Almost immediately an answer occurred to me … the right answer. And, to my embarrassment, I heard me tell God, “Oh,…
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When God Isn't Doing His Job
It’s an intentionally provocative title, and we “true believers” will find it pointless ... but ... do we? It seems to me that any of us can get tripped up when we encounter circumstances that we find uncomfortable (or worse) and think this is not what God had in mind. And I…
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Am I In Sync?
One of the greatest dangers facing the church is not open hostility to Christianity or the obvious adoption of pagan religion. Most Christians can easily recognize a false religion when it presents itself openly. We can usually spot the error when Christianity is blended with…
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News Weakly - 10/17/2026
All the News That's Fit to Print? A young mother stabbed her son and husband to death at Great Wolf Lodge Waterpark in Pennsylvania. In Jacona, Mexico, three civilians and two police officers were killed in a mass shooting while six others were wounded. In France, police…
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Faith, Hope, and Love
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor 13:13) To understand what Paul means, we have to read it in the context of the entire chapter. First Corinthians 13 is not a chapter about romance. It is a chapter about spiritual…
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Guilty By Association
Have you ever noticed how we tend to lump people into particular groups? It’s not a problem on its own and it’s helpful in some cases. But there is this tendency to lump people into a particular group and then fail to notice that not all in that group fit the group. Not all men…