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Jesus & Medical Bills
About a month ago my daughter Jericho was accidentally bumped by her brother and ended up biting her tongue so deep that we felt a visit to the ER might be important. We were unsure because while there was a lot of blood, it stopped pretty quickly and she calmed down. But after making a…
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The Presence of God
Because we’re not used to going to temples to worship we often miss the significance of them throughout the Bible. For ancient people, temples were the places where their gods resided physically on the earth—and while Yahweh is omnipresent and everywhere, He still practiced this method by putting His concentrated presence in specific buildings. As…
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Joyful Christianity
I’ve been really surprised that my chapter on joy in A Taste of Jesus has gotten the most comments. Apparently we have widespread difficulty in making this a part of the Christian faith. Today I shared some thoughts on this topic with a group at the Grande Villa Retirement Home. Check out this message on…
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Racial Peace
If you grew up white like me, you most likely grew up with a blindfold over your eyes. We were taught that slavery was done away with years ago and that equality was eventually found sometime later. Yet here we are today with recent race riots unlike anything our generation has seen. The Black Lives…
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The Holy Spirit & the Imagination
In today’s podcast, I work off of 1 Corinthians to explain that whatever you do to hear yourself think is what you need to do to hear God speak. We are all crafted differently and therefore connect with God in different ways. After explaining my own journey into discovering the Holy Spirit, I go on to give a…
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Jesus is Coming Back “Soon”
I have Christians often tell me that Jesus is coming back soon. They seem urgent about it and ready for the moment. I always have to smile because they are biblically correct. Jesus said He’d be back soon and the early church taught the same thing. I cannot argue with their Bible study. But whatever…
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Sick People Healing Sick People
A very intriguing thing happens in Abraham’s story that I never noticed until this past week: Abraham prays to God and God heals the wombs of numerous women (Gn 20:17-18). Now there’s a lot more to this story in Genesis 20 and you can read that for yourself, but this part of the story stands…
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Can Pre-Incarnate Jesus Be Found in the Old Testament?
It feels like wishful thinking to imagine Jesus being physically present in the Old Testament. In fact, some would say that to read Jesus into the Old Testament in such a way is to abuse the Bible. But if that’s true, then it seems like the New Testament writers themselves abused the Old Testament, because…
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The Wisdom of God
Paul’s theological cornerstone was to know nothing more than Christ crucified. This was not something he only had to remind himself of, but the Corinthian church as well; for they were trying to blend worldly wisdom into Christianity and suppress the message of the cross. In today’s podcast, Myisha and I tag-team preach our way…
