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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesFalling in love has become a strange thing. We can spend years drawing someone’s name in notebooks, feeling our heart pound when their name appears on our phone, and fantasizing about spending a lifetime together. For some, that love doesn’t last. Almost without warning our love for them stops growing, begins fading, and in time
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesChristians are supposed to have it all together. With the Holy Spirit making us more and more like our savior, our call to “Be holy as God is holy” should be attainable. Yet the closer we get to God, the more we see how willfully we sin and how incapable we are of being holy.
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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes(This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) This is a phrase you’ll see repeated often throughout this blog. The question is one of utmost importance for each Christian to answer. It’s easy for us to say what we believe,
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Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutesAs a word nerd, it’s fascinating to see how language develops over time. Our vocabulary is filled with words whose original meanings have been lost to time. Something awful would fill us with awe. Meat was a broad term for “solid food.” And for Christians, worship is fast becoming a term that means little more
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Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen a Christian friend is in sin, the “right thing” can be difficult to discern. We want them to follow Christ, but we can’t condone what they’re doing. Our culture tells us not to make people feel bad about themselves, yet the Bible seems pretty harsh about some sins. What’s the right answer to a
Hard Truths from True Friends Read More »