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Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. (2 Timothy 2:14-16 NIV) We live in a world that seems to grow more turbulent by the day. Politi

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor’s crown except by co

And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. (2 Timothy 1:11-12 NIV) There is something quietly devastating about a faith that fades. It does not always happen dramatically. No single crisis necessarily brings it down. Instead, it tends to happen the way a

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 NIV) There is a question that curious minds sometimes ask, the kind of question a child might ask at bedtime or a philosopher might wrestle with for a lifetime: What was happening before God created the world? What filled God’s time and His heart before He created everything? It turns out, this is not a question to avoid. It is a question that, when pursued honestly through Scripture, leads to some of th

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” … And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to t

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace. (Hebrews 6:4-6 NIV) There is a question that quietly haunts many sincere believers, one that surfaces in

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits… (1 Peter 3:18-19 NIV) There is a question that has stirred the curiosity of Christians for centuries, one that sits quietly in the middle of the Apostles' Creed, tucked between the crucifixion and the resurrection. It is a question that ma

On Hearing the Spirit

“As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” (Matthew 24:37-39 NIV) There are things we want to come back, and things we hope never do. I hope Covid never returns

When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Je