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Ed Stetzer has written a great article on The Baptist Boogeyman I’ve always been fascinated by the Baptist bogeyman.  Bogeymen are not real dangers, but ones we use to scare one another, often distracting us from real danger. There are real challenges in our churches and the convention—theological and otherwise—but bogeymen distract us from the …

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A Heart Problem, Not a Tongue Problem

I’ve recently been studying the passages in Proverbs that speak about our use of language, our mouth, and our tongue.  Last week I was struck by Proverbs 16:23, The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.  What was so striking?  The writer’s emphasis on the heart.  In Matthew …

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Monday Musings

Trying to grow in your faith?  Here is some great counsel, I prayed for faith, and though that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning.  But faith did not seem to come.  One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the …

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Spiritual Warfare in the Home: The Struggle For Leadership

This first sin, struck at the very heart of the family beginning with the role reversal that led to the struggle for leadership.  Rather than leading his wife, Adam stood by and allowed his wife to lead him.  The leadership scenario, however, did not result in a closer walk with God, but instead in separation …

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Monday Musings

Just as there can be no normal, healthy life without the proper kind of food, so there can be no normal, spiritual growth without the food that God has ordained as the nourishment of the new life. ‘As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby’ (1 Pet. 2:2). …

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What Do You Want to Be?

Right now, #Everybodywantstobe is trending on Twitter.  What are the scriptural ramifications of this statement?  The Bible teaches us that what we want to be and what we need to be are not always the same thing.  For instance, in Romans 1 Paul basically asserts that we want to be our own boss…our own god, …

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Christianity: The Arch Enemy of Science?

I often hear that conservative Christianity is opposed to “real” science and that if Christians had anything to do with it, science would never have arisen.  The great problem with statements like the one above is that they are false.  The belief that Christianity is somehow opposed to science has been repeatedly defeated, and yet …

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We Need a Hero: Why We Love The Navy Seals

Today, a new story about The Navy Seals is in the news.  Apparently, a group of US Special forces that includes members of Naval Special Warfare Development Group (formerly known as SEAL Team Six that killed Bin Laden) performed a daring rescue of Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, two aid workers in Somalia during the …

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Book Review: Jesus + Nothing = Everything

I received an early copy of Tullian Tchividjian’s latest book, Jesus + Nothing = Everything and have just now gotten around to finishing it.  It lived up to it’s hype.  I found it to be refreshing and invigorating.  This book bleeds the gospel and grace and a reader can help but walk away feeling refreshed. …

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Monday Musings

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said?  The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. Tim …

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