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14 MORE Favorite Ways to Twist the Gospel
Readers of my January 3 blog “14 Favorite Ways to Twist the Gospel” may have noted a tilt in a certain direction. Maybe that’s why one person responded, “I don’t understand”! I did in fact have a...
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5 Biblical Ecological Insights for Church Planting
Church planting assumes an ecological process. The very term is organic, not mechanical or architectural. If we’re talking about the body of Christ, not an institution or edifice, we don’t build the...
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The Unfinished Work of Christ
“When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit” (John 19:30). Four other times in Scripture we find this phrase or fact of finality. It Is...
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Living Fire!
As we enter a new year, this remarkable hymn seems especially apt and timely: Oh for that flame of living fire Which shone so bright in saints of old! Which bade their souls to heaven aspire, Calm in...
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Biblical Metaphors for Holiness
God is holy—which means loving, just, true, merciful, relational, sovereign, and wholly self-consistent in his character. So naturally, the Bible is full of holiness. A good way to understand holiness...
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How Free Methodists Got Left Behind
Introduction Free Methodists are fortunate in this: Their principal founder and their denomination were born decades before the powerful invasion of premillennial dispensationalism into American...
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Parable of the River
(At a friend’s request, I am republishing this.) From high mountain reaches it came, coursing down rocky crags and between wooded slopes until it reached the plain. There it flowed, wide and quietly...
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What’s Mission? Ask Jesus
In the Gospel of John, Jesus says he came to “finish the work” the Father had sent him to do. He prays that his disciples all “may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you” (Jn 17:21...
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Father’s House — Many Mansions!
Jesus says in John 14, “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again,...
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