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Real Love In Action
Around the year ad 125, Christians were being severely persecuted and even murdered for their faith. To turn the tide of public opinion, a gifted Christian writer named Aristides crafted a detailed defense of Christianity and delivered it to the Roman emperor Hadrian. Look at how Aristides described the selfless way Christians served people in...
No Marriage In Heaven
In an effort to discredit Jesus in front of his followers, a group of religious teachers called the Sadducees asked him a question which seemed to have no clear answer: “If a woman gets married and her husband dies, and then she marries again, and that new husband dies, and this continues seven different times,...
What Makes Heaven So Great?
The first theological question that I couldn’t answer didn’t come from a renowned theologian at Princeton Seminary or even from an atheist I was trying to convert. It came from the mouth of a freckled-faced seventh-grader in a junior high Sunday school class. At the beginning of a lesson about eternal life, I asked the...
Discovering The Point Of It All
Just before we moved from Ohio to Philadelphia, the church we had planted had grown enough to need to raise money to build our own permanent building. Two years earlier I honestly didn’t think we were going to survive. Instead, by God’s grace, we began to grow, and over time the church flourished and became...
Don’t Waste Your Pain
“Don’t waste your pain.” The first time I used that phrase, I was sitting across from a man who had just divorced his second wife. She had verbally abused his two daughters from the time they were eleven until he left her. “I knew I should have gotten out earlier,” he said, “but I kept...
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