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God Is Not Angry with You
You assume God is angry with you and that you need to do something about it. That assumption is the problem. It’s understandable why you think that way: We often feel like God is angry with us.The world often looks as though he’s angry with us.And the Bible often sounds like he’s angry with us.…
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Why the Crowd Is Wrong
There are so many churches. So many religions. So many claims. Which one is right? The question is not: Which group is biggest?But rather: What is God actually saying? A wise man called Martin Chemnitz once observed: That is exactly the pressure everyone thinking about “truth” feels today. Our church practices close communion, meaning that…
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Who is God?
God is not distant, divided, or unpredictable. That’s what it means that God is one—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So you can actually know what he’s like. And what he’s like is good. God is one being, not divided or conflicted within himself. He does not change and is not made of parts, so his…
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Life’s Unjust. God Isn’t.
Life is not fair. The strong win. Lies succeed. And things often don’t work out the way they should. God does not promise to fix the injustices of life in the present. Those that claim he always will are preaching a “theology of glory”—but God is not revealed in power, but in Jesus dying on…
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You’re Allowed to Be Overwhelmed
Sometimes all you can do is cry. You can barely get through the day. Everything feels heavy. On days like this, your emotional collapse feels like failure. It feels like one more thing collapsing on top of everything else. But, feeling overwhelmed is not a failure. It’s not a sin. It’s not wrong. It’s something…
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Spoken, Not Seen: 6-Day Creation
My atheist friends often present Genesis 1 as the ultimate proof text that God doesn’t exist. It goes like this: 1) The Bible says God created the universe in 6 days, 6,000 years ago.2) We clearly observe with our eyes that the universe appears much older than this.3) Therefore the Bible must be wrong, and…
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The Futility Loop
You replay it. You try to fix it. You fail. You replay it again. Rumination is that cycle of trying to fix something in your mind that can’t be fixed by thinking. Most of the time, when something goes over and over in our heads like this, it’s not voluntary. And, it’s not healthy. You…
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Made to Receive, Not Achieve
You weren’t made to achieve. God does not need anything from you.You do not need to prove yourself to establish your value.Your life is not something you build and secure. If God did need something from you—then security depends on you.If your worth were uncertain—then the weight of everything hangs on your shoulders.If your life…
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Stop Trying Harder
All the voices around you tell you to deliver, excel, perform. The voices in your head say the same. Two widespread, fundamental misunderstandings of what church is feed these voices. The first is that church is just another platform, another facet, where you can perform and shine. Either to compensate for failure in another part…
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I Did Everything Right—Why Am I Still Broke?
37% of kids in Manchester live in poverty. Recent data revealed that 9,589—that’s 1 in 61 people—in Manchester are homeless. Of that figure, 4,678 are children. In 2019, Manchester ranked 6 out of 326 local authorities in England, where 1 is the most deprived. My family and I moved onto a council estate right on…