Habits are like plane tickets. The destination is a result of the path you pick. If you don’t like where your trip is taking you? Change planes.
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The Difference Between Compassion and Enabling
Do you know what Antioch’s famous for? It comes up in this week’s walk through the Book of Acts. So does a lot of other stuff.
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I Beg Your Pardon, Jesus Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Matter of fact, the Bible guarantees true followers just the opposite.
Read MoreNever Marry a Man Unless He Passes These Five Tests: Pt 2
Last week Doug and Rich started evaluating one lady’s list about five tests every guy should face before being taken seriously as marriage material. This week, we round out that list.
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Carry His Burden – Carry Your Load
We’re taking a brief detour from the hike through the Book of Acts to look at a some rubber-meets-the-road aspects of stepping into the Christian life.
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The Enshittification Of The American Church
I was watching a Theo Von podcast a few nights ago and his guest used a word I’d never heard before and I’m a wordsmith.
Read MoreNever Marry a Man Unless He Passes These Five Tests: Pt 1
How can you tell if you’re ‘marriage material’? This ain’t your threadbare ‘taller than six foot and bringing in 7 figures’ wish list, either.
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Are You A Holy Troublemaker?
Y’know it’s all too easy for the dial-tone step-n-fetch American Christian to blow through that list of names and not realize, or rather, care that there were actual people attached to that august line-up.
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Mommy Dearest
You’ve heard all the legal, medical and political opinions on the year’s most famous trial. But have you heard a pastoral one?
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Dear Negative Nancy: Crappy Conditions Precede A Great Revival
Jesus sees horrible conditions as a massive harvest and that’s masculine to the core.
How’s that masculine?