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Since becoming a Christian in 1984, I’ve been deeply instructed and shaped by the Bible teaching of Jerry Bridges. The first of his books to impact me was The Pursuit of Holiness, which laid a foundation for understanding my role
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For the past few years, I have been augmenting my morning Bible time by reading daily devotionals. This year it is Holiness Day by Day, which comprises 365 brief excerpts from the writings of one of my spiritual mentors, Jerry
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In the early months of 1984, the Holy Spirit caused me to be born again in Christ through a home Bible study in the Gospel of John. In some ways, it’s hard to believe four decades have passed. In other
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On the first day of this year, I began reading through a new daily devotional that I purchased at a conference last fall. Refreshment for the Soul: A Year of Daily Readings from the ‘Heavenly Doctor’ contains brief readings drawn
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For hundreds of years, Japanese artists have repaired valuable pottery by sealing the breaks with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold. The word for this tradition, kintsugi, comes from the Japanese kin (“gold”) and tsugi (“join”) and literally means “to
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If you are attending the G3 Conference in Atlanta this week, be sure to stop by the P&R book tables and say hi to Dave Almack. He will show you many new biblically-rich resources, including REMADE: Embracing Your Complete Identity
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These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask
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Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that
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Yesterday, I shared the beautiful cover of my forthcoming book to be released in September. This is my second book with P&R Publishing, the ones who produced my bestselling 31-day devotional, Anxiety: Knowing God’s Peace. REMADE: Embracing Your Complete Identity
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Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes
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Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. Before I was afflicted I went astray,but now I keep your word. Psalm 119:67 Mrs. Schmidt was my favorite childhood teacher. Not only did she get me interested
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But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. (Rev. 2:4) Jesus’s letter to the church at Ephesus contains words of affirmation as well as this pointed rebuke. The believers there were encouraged
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Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 Peter 2:2-3 Every one of our ten babies loved to eat. If
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Yesterday, while skimming over quotes from some of my reading in years past, these paragraphs from D. A. Carson’s book, Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation, jumped out and encouraged me. Picture a couple carefully marshaling enough resources
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Last week, our church’s men’s and women’s ministries kicked off a new ministry year with their first monthly meetings. Spiritual disciplines is the theme the ministry leaders chose as this year’s focus. One of the key resources being used to
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The Christian has undergone a radical change. It is a movement from slavery to sonship (Gal. 4:7; cf. Rom. 8:16; Gal. 3:26). It is a change in status—from being children of wrath to being adopted “children of God” (1 John
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Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake… Colossians 1:24 The apostle Paul rejoiced in his sufferings because he knew that God was using them to produce growth in his own life through the experience of receiving divine comfort,
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One evening, a couple weeks ago, my daughter and I took turns reading every other page of this new book, while my younger sons eagerly listened. We intended to read only a few chapters, but couldn’t put it down. So,
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By God’s grace, I’m a husband, dad, grandpa, and pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Mayfield Hts, OH. I love Christ because He first loved me.
