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Deny Yourself
When I was a teenager, my friend Brett got really serious about God. Not normal youth group serious. Not “I bought a WWJD bracelet” serious. I’m talking full nuclear option serious. Brett loved heavy metal. His bedroom was stacked with CDs. Metallica. Pantera. Megadeth. The usual suspects. Then one day
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Love Creates
If you asked a hundred believers to describe God, I reckon you’d hear the same handful of words repeated over and over again. God is righteous. God is loving. God is just. You’d probably hear words like holy, merciful, powerful, sovereign and faithful as well. None of those answers are
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The Right Kind Of Love
On being seen without an escape route, and the strange vulnerability of finding someone who doesn’t make you beg to be chosen. I used to think that the scariest thing about love was losing it. The leaving, the unanswered messages, the slow change in someone’s voice when they don’t feel
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Something Beautiful
The trouble with being a pastor is that often, people expect you to have answers to life’s big existential questions. “What is the meaning of life?” “How do I know which religion is true?” “Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?” Heck, I don’t know! Maybe. Maybe not. But, of
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Fitting God into a Sovereign Ideology
If everything happens for a reason, then God has some explaining to do. I know that sounds provocative but follow the logic for a moment. Christians have a remarkable ability to find purpose in almost anything that happens. The job disappears, but perhaps God is opening another door. The relationship
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The Key To Clear Thinking
Jean Calas was a protestant merchant. He was tortured and executed in 1762 for allegedly murdering his own son to stop him converting to Catholicism. Except there was no evidence of his “crime.” Only rumour, panic, and a judiciary eager to confirm what it already believed. Writer and philosopher Voltaire,
August 30, 2026 by Gbenga Samuel Wemimo