Latest Blog Posts
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Can you really change?
As we grow in sanctification, we become more like Jesus. Our confidence stems from God's capacity to exceed all our expectations.
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Union with Christ: Our Hope for Sanctification
Union with Christ is the spiritual knitting together of Christ and the Christian through which the believer receives all the blessings of salvation.
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Repentance Seeking God’s Glory Through Self-Confrontation
This essay presents a model for biblical repentance. A person first determines that change should happen. He then designs a plan for change. And then he starts doing what he has resolved to do.
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These Present Sufferings
In the midst of our trials, we must keep our glorious destination in mind.
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Helping Counselees with Humiliation
When a person is experiencing the emotion of shame, this tells us a lot about what is going on in their heart.
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Splashed by Sin
God speaks loudly into our suffering. The Psalms are filled with the anguished questions of those who are suffering because of the reality of living in a sin-cursed world, those suffering shame because of being “splashed by sin”.
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A Psalmic Faith
the influence of the Greek mind on the early church. Greek Stoicism believed that emotions – anything that interrupted the goal of a calm and balanced life—were bad.
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The Stewardship of Suffering
God has a different view of thorns than we do. His ways are
often paradoxical. He gives a barren couple a son and then tells the father to kill that beloved son on an
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Anger Part 3
Before manifesting anger, we need to make sure we are asking the right questions and seeking to ensure that we have enough facts before deciding if anger is the right choice.
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Anger Part 2
When the reason or cause of the anger is all about you, when it is about how something has inconvenienced you; then that is a good sign that you are manifesting anger that is sinful.
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Anger Part 1
There is one such universal struggle that I would like to focus on in this series of blogs: sinful anger.
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Ministering the Book of Lamentations
God’s Word provides us with the testimony of a man who faced horrendous circumstances, yet experienced hope right in the midst of it all.
