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After James 1:5-8   Tests and trials in our lives, what we call the bad times, happen, driving us to seek wisdom to know what to do. How do ...

After James 1:1-4   When the bad times come, and they will come, as night follows day, don’t quake, don’t t collapse, don’t withdraw into yo...

After I Peter 2:9-12 We are called out  from the mire that is the world, called to know we are sojourners in this land of exile. This is our...

After I Peter 2:9-12 We are a priesthood, yes, called and chosen to proclaim and live in the light, but we are still at war with the passion...

After I Peter 2:4-8   The builder is constructing his house, laid upon the cornerstone, the foundation upon which all settles, all depends, ...

After I Peter 2:4-8 We come to him, rejected by the world but chosen and  precious. He calls us living stones, memorials, signposts, markers...

After I Peter 1:13-21 To believe, and to follow, may impart a cost. To deny what the word says is right may require a cost. To answer the ca...

After Ephesians 5:1-21    Walk with care, always; walk with wisdom, always. Walk with an eye  to the clock, always, for the time is short  a...

After Ephesians 5:1-21   It’s not only behaviors to watch out for, it’s also certain people, like deceivers with their empty  words. T hey’r...

After Ephesians 5:1-21   There’s a way to act, and there’s a way to not act, and while it’s not polite to point out the bad stuff, it must b...

After Ephesians 5:1-21   Children learn by seeing and doing themselves what they see their parents do. That includes the good, the bad, the ...

After Ephesians 4:17-32 They’re straightforward, these instructions for the journey underway:   Speak truth to your neighbor, because you th...

After Ephesians 4:17-32 Old walk: futility of mind. New walk: purpose, clarity.   Old walk: darkened understanding. New walk: light in a dar...

After Ephesians 3:17-21 He’s inside, breathing in the dwelling place, and it leads to a rooting and grounding, a rooting in...

After John 17:17 I considered the word: sanctify. I considered that it is a complex word, deeply layered, so complex that i...

The heavy-hitters endorsing  Gospel Wakefulness   by Jared Wilson make an impressive list: Matt Chandler, Scotty Smith, Trevin Wax, Owe...

Early on in this short but impactful book titled  Surrender: A Christian’s Guide to Dependence , Michael Summers Jr. asks a question ...