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True Righteousness (Matthew 5:17-20)
Last week we learned and saw what it means to be salt and light (5:13-16). In the coming weeks we will see how this “salt and light” mantra begins within our own hearts. For this week, however, we see...
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The Heart of Murder (Matthew 5:21-26)
Have you ever committed murder? At first, you may be offended at such a statement. You may think, “Of course, I have not killed anybody.” Yet, murder is not simply about the action. That is what Jesus...
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Book Review: Gaining By Losing
Throughout churches in America, there is a growing fear of whether their local churches will continue to survive. Sure, the growing hostility toward Christianity has made an impact on this and it seems...
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Book Review: When the Lights Go Down
“Dr. Eckel has ruined watching movies for me forever.” As one of his former (and current) students, I can attest to Dr. Mark Eckel’s remarks (on page xiii). I am one of those students who can say that...
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Cut It Off (Matthew 5:27-30)
Just this week hackers released data from the cheating website, Ashley Madison, a site devoted to assisting extramarital, or better put, adulterous relationships. News especially broke out and had a...
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Book Review: Prayers for New Brides
Titus 2:3-5 says, “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and...
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Biblical Reflection on the Duggar Issue
[Note: This post was written by Mandy Baker, a good friend of mine from Bible college, and was first posted on Facebook and now on here with her permission.] Here’s my (Mandy) two cents on the whole...
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Getting to Know You: Kasey Clark
[This is the third interview in the Getting to Know You series, featuring an interview with the Weekly Word devotional contributors. The contributor we are getting to know this time around is Kasey...
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“Cross My Heart, Hope to Die…” (Matthew 5:31-37)
If you haven’t seen Mandy Baker’s thoughts on the Duggar situation that was posted on Entrusted By God earlier this week, please take a little time to go and read that now. She talks about the idea of...
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Partnering to Reach the Unreached
Matthew 28:18-20 shares the words of Jesus, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of...
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Counter-Cultural Christians, Part 1 (Matthew 5:38-42)
What do you do when you are personally attacked? How do you respond when treated with contempt by another? Often our natural response is retaliation. We say, “They have it coming to them!” Our culture...
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Worldview Analysis: Atheistic Existentialism
Do you believe in destiny? Perhaps you are unsure as to what destiny even is. How can you give a proper answer about something when you don’t even really know what that something is? Definitions are...
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To Heaven and Back?
There has been a phenomenon in recent years over people’s near-death experiences and supposed glimpses and visits to heaven (and hell). These experiences have been turned into bestseller books, and the...
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Book Review: Baptists in America
George Santayana is credited with saying, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In other words, learning from history is not simply recollecting what has happened in the...
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Counter-Cultural Christians, Part 2 (Matthew 5:43-48)
A few years ago a country song came out by Jaron and the Long Road to Love titled “Pray for You”. Part of the song’s chorus went, “I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill, I pray a flowerpot...
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#TBT: Les Miserables Review
One single act of mercy by a person to another who does not deserve it can go a long way and possibly change the course of that person’s life. Redemption and the power of forgiveness can completely...
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Secret Sincerity (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18)
One of the great challenges I have observed and experienced nine months into pastoral ministry is the balance of public persona and private devotional life. What I mean by that is the life I live in...
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The Two Ways of Life
Roads are an interesting thing. Up until the second year of my undergraduate, I refused to take the interstate on my way to school. I don’t know if it was because a fear of traffic or something else....
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Pray Like This (Matthew 6:7-15)
We are told it is essential to the life of a Christian. We are exhorted to practice it daily and to realize the priority of it in our lives. We are talking about prayer. It is true prayer is one of the...
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Book Review: Martyrs of Malatya
In John 15:25, Jesus tells His disciples, “But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.'” In the context, He is speaking that a servant is not greater...
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