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The Biblical Basis for Giving Graciously

Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the…
A Lesson from the Old Testament: Be an Idiot

Joshua was an idiot. Joshua was also a warrior. Having been privileged to know some warriors from fairly close quarters, I can tell you he lead a pack of manly, macho, rough, belching, farting, pink-hating dudes. So…
The Bible, Coming to an XBox 360 Near You

This week's release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke video game sales records despite the economic downturn and the typical consumer's lighter wallet. Make no mistake about it: video games are quickly becoming t…
What Would You Do to See Jesus?

What does it mean to have faith? How far does your faith go? Does it stop at any closed door? Or does it find away around the door so that it can grow deeper? These questions bring up a bible verse: Mark 2:1-12.When Je…
The Challenge of Applying Scripture

By Clayton King In studying for my message this past week, I consulted Gordon Fee’s commentary on the letter to the Philippians. Fee always has a way of achieving a great blend of academic discovery and practical appl…
The Triune God

The doctrine of the Trinity — that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are each equally and eternally the one true God — is admittedly difficult to comprehend, and yet is the very foundation of Christi…
Most Important Verse in the Bible

A friend of mine texted me the other day asking me a question. I thought it was a very interesting question to say the least. Is there a real answer to this question? Perhaps! Only God Himself can truly answer it. But i…
Christians and Sex: Clearing Up The Misconceptions

Okay. So I have been noticing a lot of blogs by atheists lately having to do with the Christian view of sex. They seem to have this notion that Christians are really prudish about this particular topic. Well, for one th…
Nick Cave introducing The Gospel of Mark

By Dave at The Mockingbird Blog Almost ten years ago, Canongate Books published a series of single books from the Bible with prefaces from some unlikely people. Bono did the Psalms, Doris Lessing took Ecclesiastes, and …
Even Paul Had Internal Struggles

I am not a super Christian. I get upset easily. I take things personally and often over react. All of us have areas in our lives that we are not happy with--a negative side, the part of us we try to minimize. For me, on…