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Confessing and forgiving in "Return of the Prodigal Son"
Christian Living, Encouragement, Message Series, Spiritual Practices

How Confessing and Forgiving are Inseparable

To forgive, combine confessing and forgiving as Jesus taught. Part 3 of "Forgive Intentional Sin—Don't Just Manage Emotions." Jesus said something astonishing in the Lord’s Prayer about confessing and forgiving. He said we should pray, Forgive…
June 29, 2016
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Must I forgive? Ephesians says yes
Christian Living, Encouragement, Message Series, Spiritual Practices

Must I Forgive THIS Sin?

The first step towards forgiving is committing to forgive, but to do that, I need to know: must I forgive this offense? Part 2 of "Forgive Intentional Sin—Don't Just Manage Emotions." In my last post on What Forgiving Isn’t, I shared six…
June 16, 2016
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Forgiving isn't easy
Christian Living, Encouragement, Message Series, Spiritual Practices

What Forgiving Isn’t: 5 Stand-ins that Masquerade as Forgiving

Forgiving isn't always what we think it is. Part 1 of "Forgive Intentional Sin—Don't Just Manage Emotions." Forgiving isn't managing emotions. Most Christians know Jesus taught that we must forgive. But when anger and hurt linger, we sometimes…
May 26, 2016
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Good people
Apologetics, Bible Perplexities, Bible Study, Psalms

Does God send good people to hell?

A reader asks this about good people: There seem to be a lot of good people doing kind things out there; it’s hard to believe they will be condemned to hell because the only way there is Jesus. I reconcile myself with knowing my Savior is…
March 23, 2016
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The Sacrifice of Abraham
Apologetics, Jesus in the Old Testament, Message Series

Conscience Says Abraham Wrong? Answering Rachel Held Evans, Part 5

Does God expect us to deny our conscience by accepting the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac? This is my fifth and final post addressing Rachel Held Evans’s October 2014 blog post, “I would fail Abraham’s test (and I bet you…
January 26, 2016
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Elizabeth Bennet judging motives of Mr.Darcy
Apologetics, Jesus in the Old Testament, Message Series

Do God’s Motives Matter? Answering Rachel Held Evans, Part 4

If God’s defining characteristic is supposed to be love, why would he ask Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac? Do God's motives matter? In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet spurns Mr. Darcy’s marriage proposal despite…
December 10, 2015
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Omnipresence and theophanies
Apologetics, Jesus in the Old Testament, Message Series

What made Abraham Different? Answering Rachel Held Evans: Part 3

Rachel Held Evans says if she’d been Abraham, she’d have sooner been struck dead than obeyed; what made Abraham different? In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Henry Baskerville fumes at a hotel waiter over losing two boots a maid was…
November 24, 2015
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Apologetics, Jesus in the Old Testament, Message Series

Abraham & Human Sacrifice? Answering Rachel Held Evans, Part 2

Did Rachel Held Evans miss cultural facts about the binding of Isaac and human sacrifice? As I read Rachel Held Evans’s blog, “I would fail Abraham’s test (and I bet you would too),” I was reminded of Dorothy Sayers’s mystery novel,…
November 4, 2015
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The sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham
Apologetics, Bible Perplexities, Jesus in the Old Testament, Message Series

Was Abraham Wrong? Answering Rachel Held Evans, Part 1

Does conscience require us to stamp the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac as unhistorical or Abraham wrong and a moral failure? Best-selling author Rachel Held Evans has a popular blog, speaks frequently, and has published three…
October 27, 2015
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