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The letter to Ephesus: A love lost
The Ephesian church was told by Paul in Acts 20 that they would be troubled by false teachers, some of them arising from within the church itself. Paul wrote to Timothy (who was ministering in Ephesus)...
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By this we know love
I’m speaking this weekend at the National Hispanic Preachers & Leaders Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida. I’m flattered that they’re letting me speak, even though I’m not Hispanic! I was...
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Knowledge that puffs up
I’ve shared with some friends a concern I have about attitudes I see in our churches. Worse, these are attitudes that I see in me. On the one hand, there are areas in which I’ve become uncomfortable...
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‘The goal of this command is love’
On Wednesday, I mentioned one of the talks that I gave last month at the National Preachers Conference in Cuba, a class on elders. The other talk was a keynote lecture on “Doctrine.” Because the theme...
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When in Abilene, minister to Abilene
I’d like to ask you to skim my post from yesterday. As you do so, I’d like you to read it with this question in mind: Who are the hurting people in our congregation? I feel like many people read...
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If our relationship with God is based on rewards, we’ll tend to focus on what “gets us saved” or “makes us lost.” If our relationship is based on God himself, we’ll focus on what pleases God. Saved...
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