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A Heavenly Reward
In today’s podcast, Paul offers a metaphor that interprets in a rather surprising way: While Christians are saved only by faith and belief in Christ, our works as Christians play a part in a reward to come in Heaven. Working with this metaphor, I survey similar explanations of the afterlife through Jesus’ teachings and then…
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Visions, C.S. Lewis & Narnia
Sometimes a vision is nothing more than a visual thought. In other words, maybe you didn’t receive a “word from the Lord” via your thoughts, but instead you just got a “picture from the Lord” via your mind. This won’t feel anymore spectacular than any other image that pops into your head, for we have…
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The Bradley Bunch: Episode 1
In this new side podcast with my kids, we talk about all things virtual reality, Moana, Tiny Toon Adventures and the ABC’s.
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The Scene of the Resurrection
There are a few interesting Biblical callbacks it seems John is giving us as he paints for us Jesus’ tomb—that is, the scene of the resurrection. As we look at these possible references, we retrace the presence of God throughout history and pinpoint it on Jesus. Furthermore, we come to see Jesus’ role in…
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Know Your Neighbor
A few weeks ago I watched several people take the mic at a city council meeting to comment on the lack of street lights in our city. Their concern was understandable in relation to recent crime, so our church bought a bunch of bright light bulbs and spent the last two weekends going door to…
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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…
