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Steps to Blessing: Step 2: Recognize, Part 1
People today want to be spiritual. They want to get in touch with a higher power, they believe in transcendence, they want connection with something …
1 year, 11 months ago
Steps to Blessing: Step 1: Listen
We need to recapture the idea of the power and authority of Jesus' Word in church life. That is what will feed people; that is what will grow people.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Song of Songs: A Provocative Gospel #3
You cannot interpret this passage without tackling King Solomon. He's sort of a hero figure here, but isn't this the guy who had 700 wives? That's no…
1 year, 11 months ago
Confess, Part 2
Atonement is made at the point of confession. When we sin, grace abounds. Where we fail, mercy thrives. When we are broken, healing comes. God's grac…
1 year, 11 months ago
Confess, Part 1
When you have a small god, people look big. You fear being open about who you are because you care about what others think. The only way to have peop…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Mountain
Consumeristic Christianity finds people choosing a different church just because they don't like the music. When we talk about worship, our goal is t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Temple, Part 2
What do you think of when you think of church? Perhaps you just can't see that it's going to make any real difference in the world in the times we li…
1 year, 11 months ago
Christ's Countercultural Church: A Better Temple, Part 1
Some of you are disappointed by church. To be honest, you would rather play golf on Sunday morning. We all need to be called back to a vision of what…
1 year, 11 months ago
Song of Songs: A Provocative Gospel #2
Beware of the toothpaste-tube fallacy—going from a small thing (what's the right way to roll up the tube) to a massive thing (he doesn't love me anym…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Book of Chronicles: Finding a Compass for Your Life, Part 2
Worship is only biblical worship when, at its heart, is a confession of sin and a reception of the forgiveness of sin by a focus on Christ and his cr…
1 year, 11 months ago