Posts tagged “Truth”
In the presence of my enemies
For Christmas a couple of years ago, my husband and I gave our kids The Biggest Story Bible, written by Kevin DeYoung and illustrated…
Jesus is the King we need
Jesus must have seemed like the perfect king for the average first-century Jew. Frustrated by suffocating taxes and the Roman occupation, most Jews begged…
Grace for real sinners
“At least I ain’t killed nobody.” We sure like to set the bar high for ourselves, don’t we? Not. How often isn’t this our…
Come as you are—live as he is
Many church websites today display the motto: Come as you are! This is an encouragement for people to understand that Jesus (and their church)…
News fatigue?
Who’s feeling a bit burned out on bad news? God wants you to hear his good news. There’s a bunch of it in Isaiah…
Avoid extremism
It’s easy to be extreme these days, isn’t it? We see people (ourselves included sometimes) believing in something so strongly that we think the…
Jesus never twisted Scripture
Do you ever take a snippet of Scripture and make an unscriptural application? God made you. That’s true. God doesn’t make mistakes. That’s true…
The end of “fake news”
Are you as tired as I am of hearing the term fake news? It seems we’ve been bombarded with this idiom ever since the…
No exclusions on grace
There are always exclusions, right? Everything comes with fine print. You go to the doctor and have to sign forms—lots of forms! You rent…
Your baptism is a big deal
Do you think your baptism is a big deal? Big enough to stand up and clap for, to shed a tear over, to annually…
An encounter with the living God
You caught the player’s jersey when he threw it into the crowd. The movie icon was out for a run, crossed the street in…
The most useful book ever
Americans, for the most part, are practical people. I’ve noticed that when I preach a message at church, my listeners (mostly, but not all,…