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The Most Important Virtue
It isn’t love. It’s not faith, either. Not humility, not joy, not peace, not patience. It gives these other virtues legs. It carries them into battle on its shoulders. It picks them up when they are wounded. It soothe...
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Being a Cheerful Little Pawn
Zoom it all out for a moment. Right out. Twist your perspectival lens until Earth cowers humbly before the sun, and world history smirks knowingly at July 2025 from its well-earned armchair. "What is man that You reme...
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Why Christ is King | Postmillennialism & Psalm 110 (Part 1)
Over the past few years, postmillennialism (the view that Christ's kingdom has already begun and will, over time, saturate the world with the gospel until it drips) has transitioned through various stages of acceptanc...
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Drag Drama into the Daylight
Weekly Text: Acts 15:1-11
Fester is a word worth pondering. It may even be worth festering over. Most other things are not, however. Drama of any sort ought to be addressed head-on, no matter how much “dissension and debate” (v2, 7) it causes....
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16. Don't Follow Fools Off a Cliff
The Thirty Sayings (16/30)
Saying Sixteen Proverbs 23:19-21 Hear, my son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way. Do not mix with winebibbers, or with gluttonous eaters of meat; for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and d...
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How Did That Make You Feel, Paul?
Weekly Text: Acts 14:19-28
If a Christian man from the modern world were stoned almost to death for his faith, it would not be relegated to a footnote in his biography. It would clothe the pages of history books and adorn the covers of evangeli...
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15. Stop Longing for a Glittery Hell
The Thirty Sayings (15/30)
Saying Fifteen Proverbs 23:17-18 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day; for surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off. Stop longing for a glittery...
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The Hearth of Isola Hill
A Short Story
It wasn’t marked on the map, but somehow he’d expected to find it — the house atop Isola Hill. He entered with a snowy crunch. Inside, his tools found their place. It was a relief not to carry them anymore. There was...
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Watch That Tone
Weekly Text: Acts 14:1-18
Reformed Christians such as myself sometimes scratch their heads at statements like this: “They spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed.” (v1) If God is absolutely sovereign (which he is – Ephesi...
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