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May 21, 2017
productivity
Do More Better - Book Review
May 21, 2017
productivity

Do More Better is Tim Challies' Christian answer to the productivity gurus of the business world.  But, unlike them, his goal is not to help you get ahead, how to beat the system, or put in minimal effort to get maximum gains.  Instead, as he says in the introduction, "I don’t want you to do more stuff or take on more projects or complete more tasks. Not necessarily. I don’t want you to work longer hours or spend less time with your family and friends. I want you to do more good. I want you to do more of what matters most, and I want you to do it better" (5). 

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May 21, 2017
productivity
Love or Die: Christ's Wake-up Call to the Church - Book Review
October 9, 2016
love, Revelation, apathy
Love or Die: Christ's Wake-up Call to the Church - Book Review
October 9, 2016
love, Revelation, apathy

"It is not so much that their genuine virtues have squeezed love out, but that no amount of good works, wisdom, and discernment in matters of church discipline, patient endurance in hardship, hatred of sin, or disciplined doctrine, can ever make up for lovelessness."

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October 9, 2016
love, Revelation, apathy
To the Golden Shore – Book Review
September 29, 2014
book review, frontier missions, suffering
To the Golden Shore – Book Review
September 29, 2014
book review, frontier missions, suffering
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September 29, 2014
book review, frontier missions, suffering
This Momentary Marriage - Book Review
September 9, 2014
Book Reviews, covenant, gospel, heaven, marriage
This Momentary Marriage - Book Review
September 9, 2014
Book Reviews, covenant, gospel, heaven, marriage
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September 9, 2014
Book Reviews, covenant, gospel, heaven, marriage
Life Together - Book Review
September 5, 2014
Bonhoeffer, Book Reviews, church, community, fellowship
Life Together - Book Review
September 5, 2014
Bonhoeffer, Book Reviews, church, community, fellowship
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September 5, 2014
Bonhoeffer, Book Reviews, church, community, fellowship
Let the Nations Be Glad! - Book Review
August 16, 2014
John Piper, Johnathan Edwards, world missions
Let the Nations Be Glad! - Book Review
August 16, 2014
John Piper, Johnathan Edwards, world missions

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.

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August 16, 2014
John Piper, Johnathan Edwards, world missions
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert - Book Review
August 9, 2014
book review, homosexuality, repentance
Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert - Book Review
August 9, 2014
book review, homosexuality, repentance
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August 9, 2014
book review, homosexuality, repentance
August 9, 2014
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August 9, 2014
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August 9, 2014
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George Müller: Rooted in the Trustworthiness of God
biography
July 8, 2025
George Müller: Rooted in the Trustworthiness of God
biography
July 8, 2025

What would it look like to trust your Heavenly Father to provide for all your needs? What would it be like to believe that if you ask, He will give; that if you seek, you will find; that if you knock, He will open (Matt 7:7-11)?

It would look like George Müller, the pastor, orphan-lover, and missionary from the 19th century. He was a man who lived confident that his Heavenly Father would always provide.

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biography
July 8, 2025
Thirty-Three and Single
singleness, loneliness
October 30, 2024
Thirty-Three and Single
singleness, loneliness
October 30, 2024
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singleness, loneliness
October 30, 2024
Identity (Part 3): Delighted in God
identity, affections
July 31, 2023
Identity (Part 3): Delighted in God
identity, affections
July 31, 2023

Being a Christian is so much more than just going to church, learning right theology, and going through the motions of being a “good Christian.” I want all that you are—your heart, soul, mind, strength; your affections, desires, wants; your hopes, dreams, ambitions; your love, your joy, your peace—to be for our Savior. That is the good life. That is the abundant life that Christ promised, when we are enraptured with His love and fully happy in Him.

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identity, affections
July 31, 2023
Identity (Part 1): Who Are You?
identity
July 29, 2023
Identity (Part 1): Who Are You?
identity
July 29, 2023

Identity is crucial.1 Identity not only defines how we introduce ourselves, but also dictates how and why we live. Through our identity, we interpret the world, understand relationships, choose our actions, have stability, and worship. …Our problem is that there are a billion voices clamoring to define who and what we are.

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identity
July 29, 2023
The Johannine Concept of Abiding
Johannine, abide
June 23, 2023
The Johannine Concept of Abiding
Johannine, abide
June 23, 2023

“Abide with me; fast falls the eventide / The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.”[1] So begins the comforting hymn by Henry F. Lyte. But, to brusquely push past the sweetness of the lyrics, what does Lyte mean by ‘abide’? Is he asking Christ to tolerate him, wait for him, accept him, remain with him, continue with him, or dwell with him?[2]

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Johannine, abide
June 23, 2023
Christians Don’t Sin
Johannine, sin
May 19, 2023
Christians Don’t Sin
Johannine, sin
May 19, 2023

Do Christians have sin, or do they not? 1 John 1:8-9 teaches that a Christian must admit he has sin, or else be condemned for not having “the truth” (1:8) and making God “a liar” (1:10) Yet 1 John 3:6b seems to teach that if one does sin at all, he does not know Christ!

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Johannine, sin
May 19, 2023

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