Articles to Meditate on
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Something Cannot Create Itself
Something cannot create itself. It needs a creator outside itself. Example: a lamp. A lamp has never spontaneously appeared. At one time it did not exist. Common sense knows it had a creator, and because it didn’t exist prior, it could not create itself. All material things (rocks, stars, trees, water) and all immaterial things…
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God Does Get Us
The He Gets Us commercials are startlingly gritty, taking us to places many professed followers of Christ don’t want to go. They reveal an absence of kindness, compassion, and long suffering in many of us. They may make us uncomfortable for all the right reasons, both spiritually and practically. The Bible instructs Christians that our…
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Our Father (Counting Cost Part 4)
How can you not be overwhelmed by the fact that the same God, the God who created and controls the universe, has chosen to adopt you as His own child?
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Eternal Life (Counting Cost Part 3)
“That will be $79,238. Just sign here please.” Would you sign? The obvious question is “What do I get in return?” The first two posts in the counting cost series looked at what we must be willing to give up, and the cost is staggering. If we are to count the cost, and determine if…
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What do I Need to Give Up? (Counting Cost Part 2)
She stood in line at the airport, waiting for her bags to be screened. She had no idea which items in her bags she was allowed to bring with her and which ones she wasn’t. Everything she owned was in those bags. She was about to depart for America, leaving her third-world country behind. Since…
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Do I Need to Give it to Him? (Counting Cost Part 1)
Homeless and destitute, I wandered through the war-torn region, aware of the danger that I was in. Every few minutes, I would hear another blast, sometimes accompanied by screaming or wailing. I knew that any moment could be my last. I wore a huge backpack, filled with all of my belongings. I had a few…
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The Disease (Faith vs Works, Part 2)
I will begin by saying that this analogy is not perfect. It is simply a picture that helped me to understand the proper balance of faith and works within the Christian life. Let me tell you about the disease that I have. Mine is a painful and deadly disease which produces visible and grotesque growths,…
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Saving Faith (Faith vs. Works, Part 1)
A week ago I got a visit from a well-known billionaire. He told me that his team of scientists discovered that, without a doubt, my building was going to collapse at 5:00 this evening. Due to the nature of the fault, there was no possible way to shore up the building or delay its demise…