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Feed Your Family: Protestant Work Ethic

Feed Your Family: Protestant Work Ethic

Feed Your Family

Protestant Work Ethic

Christians are the freest people on the planet to work hard. Because we do not have to earn God’s favor, we are empowered to pour our energy and time and skill and creativity into blessing others.

Feed Your Brain: Bodily Movement

Feed Your Brain: Bodily Movement

Feed Your Brain

Bodily Movement

Exercise is an acquired pleasure that can be leveraged to increase our joy, to love others, and to glorify God.

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Popular References: Romans 8; Hebrews 10; Philippians 1; John 3; Isaiah 55

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Feed Your Soul: Habits of Grace

Feed Your Soul

Habits of Grace

Learn to feed your soul as a Christian through means of grace, and habits of life, appointed by the risen Christ.

Feed Other Souls: Disciple-Making

Feed Other Souls

Disciple-Making

Disciple-making feeds the souls of young believers so that they grow strong in faith through the means of careful attention, wise words, and godly example.

God Can Handle Your Crisis

God Can Handle Your Crisis

Psalm 46 teaches us God can handle the earth’s undoing and nations raging against his people — and that if he can do that, he can be a very present help in our trouble.

Water from the Rock for Undeserving People

Water from the Rock for Undeserving People

God promises us his life-sustaining presence, even as he leads us into waterless regions of suffering and loss.

Seventy Years Without Shipwreck: Five Reasons That Some Fall Away

Seventy Years Without Shipwreck

Five Reasons That Some Fall Away

Faith does not shipwreck upon the rocks of history, logic, science, or ethics, but on the mountains of sinful desire.

The Uncommon Virtue of Humility

The Uncommon Virtue of Humility

Humility flourishes in hearts that focus not on being humble, but on gladly exalting Jesus, who is superior to us in every possible way.

The Gospel in All Caps: Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ

The Gospel in All Caps

Glorified Scars in the Body of Christ

We boast on Sunday because Christ died on Friday. No cross, no favor with God. No crucifixion, no resurrection. We live because he died.

What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?

What Is ‘Freedom in Christ’?

What is freedom in Christ? Freedom from trying to earn God’s acceptance, and freedom to know and enjoy God forever.

Christ Died to Make Us Holy: And Why Some Preachers Avoid It

Christ Died to Make Us Holy

And Why Some Preachers Avoid It

There is a kind of unhealthy preaching that fails to make plain the effective connection between the sin-bearing work of Christ and the sin-killing work of the Christian.

We Rejoice to Suffer for You: Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy

We Rejoice to Suffer for You

Pastoral Pain and the People’s Joy

Why does the apostle Paul speak so much about himself and his suffering? Because his suffering for the sake of others makes the love of Christ tangible to them.

Brother Ass: Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists

Brother Ass

Stewarding the Body as Christian Hedonists

Why would Christians exercise? Working and pushing these bodies, as God designed them, serves our learning, our joy, and our love.

Behind the Times: Survival in a Day of Suffocating News

Behind the Times

Survival in a Day of Suffocating News

What if, with some intentionality, the news could become a source of refreshment rather than a continual distraction and discouragement?

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