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Faith Is Not a Decision
God is not asking you to make a decision for Jesus. Or to choose Christ. Or to think things through and change your opinion. In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul doesn’t even command people to have faith. Doesn’t present people with a decision to choose faith. Doesn’t even invite people to exercise faith.…
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Forgiven—Yet Still in Hell??
On the cross, God reconciled the world to himself in Christ (2 Cor 5:19). Jesus took away the sin of the world (John 1:29). And he bore God’s wrath—his legal condemnation of sin—as the atoning sacrifice for the whole world (1 John 2:2). In other words: on AD 33, at the cross, God forgave everyone…
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Why “If I Stop…” Feeds Your Porn Addiction
“It will rewire your brain.”“It will damage your relationships.”“It will control you.” You’ve been told these warnings countless times. You believe them. You’ve seen them in your life. And yet—no matter how many times you hear them—you eventually crawl back again to that phone, that laptop, that website. “You’ll finally feel clean.”“You’ll become more confident…
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The Effectiveness of Inaction
We all have the same instinct: If something is wrong → act. If people put you under pressure → respond. If the future is uncertain → take control. You feel that. I feel that. This is part of the human experience. Psalm 62 says the complete opposite: Do nothing—and wait. Not as a “tactic” or…
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You have nothing to prove
You feel pressure to succeed. To perform. To deliver. There are obvious reasons for that. You need the pay check. Bills don’t pay themselves. But that’s not the main reason it feels so heavy. None of us in life wants to be a failure. All of us want to be something. And that’s why for…
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I’m Scared of People
Sometimes another person can make your whole body feel unsafe. Perhaps someone has threatened you. Perhaps someone has lied about you, or turned others against you. Perhaps it is not one event at all, but years of pressure, conflict, accusation, or fear. And so you feel scared. That kind of fear is not abstract. You…
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Why No Evidence Will Ever Be Enough
Nobody can see God—even when he’s standing right in front of them. When the Bible says this, the claim is more than merely that God is some sort of dark matter: It’s saying you cannot even look at the world and reason your way to understand him. He and his work do not seem to…
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Everyone is Forgiven—That’s Easter
Today, Jesus rose from the dead. He defeated all death, because on the cross he took away all sin. Most people I talk to think that God’s angry with them. The rest think that God is pleased with them because of something inside them. But Easter is all about God’s unconditional gracious forgiveness: the decision…
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Suffering Silently, Already Vindicated
It is Easter Saturday. The disciples spent Easter Saturday confronting their own failure, scared of those around them, with no hope left at all. The closest description we get is from the next recorded moment, in John 20:19: the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews But Easter Saturday was…