Jesus Went Where You Won't
There's a wall in your town. You didn't build it, but you've learned to walk around it. In John 4, Jesus had every reason
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You Cannot Fight What You Cannot Name
Feelings came first. Before a child can speak, he can cry. Before he knows the word hunger, he feels it. We come into this world able to ache, to fear,
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A Handshake Is Not Repentance
There is a counterfeit grace going around the church. It wears a smile and a firm handshake. A man lies to your face one month, never makes it right, and
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The Cross Is the Only Place God Loves the Sinner
I used to say it. "God loves the sinner but hates the sin." It sounds gracious. It feels safe. But it minimizes the seriousness of sin and the
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The Problem Was Never Your Delivery
God looked at a world full of wickedness and didn't tell Noah to start naming names. He didn't say, "Go catalog every filthy thing they&
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The Sweetest Words You'll Ever Hear Are Not Your Own Name
When I got married, I stood at the altar holding my bride's hand, and off to my left stood my best man. Now picture that best man leaning
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Condemned Already
We used to meet in a rough section of town in the early years of Pilgrim and on the way to the church house we'd pass this run-down
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You Love the Gifts. Not the Giver.
We'll never say it out loud. But the way we live says it for us. We like the gifts from the Giver. We just don't like
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God Didn't Take the Serpents Away
Numbers 21 will mess you up if you let it. The people of Israel got bit by fiery serpents. Not because they were murderers. Not because they were thieves. They
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