How to Achieve Godliness

The Bible begins to give us some clues about godliness in its earliest pages. In a very short three-verse summary of Enoch’s life in Genesis, Moses twice describes him as one who “walked with God.” The author of Hebrews gives …

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Chagrined but Noble

As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by …

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Grace Leads to Relationships

Grace and obedience aren’t enemies. They’re friends. Grace doesn’t prevent obedience. Grace enables it. “Work out your own salvation,” Paul says “with fear and trembling.” Sound legalistic? I know, it does to me too. This is why Paul goes on …

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Be Radically Inclusive

To welcome the stranger is to welcome Christ. Believer or nonbeliever, attractive or unattractive, admirable or disreputable, upstanding or vile—the stranger is marked by the image of God. Therefore, we are called to love. The Greek word for hospitality in …

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God’s Oscar Speech

When Jesus was baptised, the Spirit descended and the Father announced to the world how very proud he was of his Son: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). At this point …

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Follow the Leader

I am of Paul. I am of Apollos. I am of John Piper or Jim Wallis or Jen Hatmaker or Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It was a first century problem, and it is a twenty-first century problem. It is perhaps most …

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