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- Abortion
- Creation
- Culture
- Are People in the United States Really, Truly Crazy?
- Come to Jesus, Elizabeth Warren.
- Fear and Peace in a COVID-19 World
- From Atheism to Faith
- George Floyd, Justice, and Mercy.
- Hating People Who Hate Sin
- Jefferson Airplane, Hippies, and the Truth
- Maybe It Started with Superman
- Stairway to Heaven: The Piper Didn’t Lead Us to Reason.
- The Days of Lawlessness Jesus Spoke of Are Coming. Indeed, They Are Already Here.
- The Western Culture's Sad Disconnect from Reality.
- Want To Stop Racism? Here's Where To Start. And Finish.
- Where Did All This Hate Come From?
- Why I’ll (Probably) Never Vote for a Democrat as Long as I Live.
- Discipleship
- A Letter To My Younger Christian Self
- All Your Tribulation Are Belong To Us.
- Being Tempted? It Ain't God.
- Cervical Surgery and Cyprian's Letter to Condemned Christian Mine Workers
- Christian, Bow the Knee.
- Christian, Why Do You Want to Stop Sinning?
- Christians: On the Road Somewhere Between Contraryville and Upsidedown Town
- Come, Let Us Think About Eternity.
- Cory Booker and the Word of God.
- Dear Christian: Does Your Rulebook Rival the IRS?
- Did Jesus Say, "Go and Plant Churches"?
- Discipleship and the Navigators
- Discipleship and the Stinking Carcass of Performance Preaching
- Divinely Confined
- Do I Work Out My Salvation with Fear and Trembling?
- Fighting for Peace?
- God Desires Your Discomfort.
- God's Purpose for Christians: Sacrifice
- God's Will: It's a Mysterious, Wonderful Journey.
- How Did Abraham See Jesus' Day? It's About Promises and Faith.
- How Long Does It Take Before a Christian Is Qualified to Disciple Others?
- How to Grow in the Knowledge of God.
- I Request the Highest of Fives.
- I Want Revenge!
- Indestructible
- Insensitivity on Steroids
- It's Pretty Simple
- It's True. I Can Be as Evil and Brainless as Anybody.
- Jesus' Discipleship Requirements from Luke 14
- John Wick and Revenge for Christians
- Just Because You're a Christian Doesn't Mean You're a Disciple
- Let Us Go, Then, You and I, and Talk About…Pigs.
- Matt Chandler on the Realities of the Kingdom of God
- Nachos and the Name of God
- Nice Church
- No, Christian, You Do Not Need to be Quiet and Still to Hear God's Voice.
- No, Christian, You Don't Need a Spiritual Father.
- Oh, How I Like to be Liked.
- Oh, Me of Little Faith
- Oh, Me of Little Love.
- One Day, Christians Will Rule.
- Pentecostals: We Are Not Healed Because Jesus Was Whipped.
- People Possess a Trait That God Does Not. That's Not a Good Thing.
- Scriptures That Batter My Brain
- Sisters Serving in Bangladesh
- Swords? Christians Should Buy Swords?
- The Brutal and Glorious Truth About God's Calling.
- The Cost of Being Jesus' Disciple
- The Costly Mantle of Discipleship
- These Christians Knew How to Face Death.
- Troubled by the Church? Yeah. I Get That.
- Want to be a Disciple of Jesus? Are You Sure?
- Well What Would YOU Teach a Disciple?
- What Does "Owe No One Anything" Mean to Christians?
- What Happens When You Become a Christian?
- What in the World Was Judas Thinking?
- What Should We Know When We Suffer? The Better Question Is Whom?
- Who Was Killed on the Cross? The Creator of the Universe.
- Wimpy Christians
- Yes, Christian. God Will Break You.
- You Cannot Be a Disciple of Jesus Unless You Are Willing to Die for Him
- You're Great, But It's Really Hard to Love You.
- Evolution
- Fasting
- Forgiveness
- Giving
- God
- Breaking News: The Coronavirus Isn't In Control. God Is.
- Comprehending the Incomprehensible.
- God and the Hurricane
- God Questions Job
- God's character or attributes
- A Bit Unexpected: God Tells Moses to Write the Words of a Song.
- Alan Turing and the Inscrutable Will of God
- Christian, Is This the God You Know?
- Do You Keep Your Promises? Yeah. Right.
- Does It matter That God Is Perfect?
- God Is Jealous. Does That Make Him Icky?
- God Plans to Fail.
- God’s Will: Your Weakness
- Is God a Good Money Manager?
- Is God Crazy?
- Is it God's Will that People Commit Horrible Crimes?
- Merry Christmas from the God who Created All that Exists
- Merry Christmas Unbeliever
- My Mind? Foolish. God's Mind? Life.
- Our Numbers or God's Numbers. Which Do We Want?
- Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke it: God Makes Things Crooked.
- Thank You, Captain Obvious.
- The God of Perfect Discipline
- The God of Perfect Good
- The God of Perfect Peace
- The God of Perfect Power Perfect Love
- The God of Weakness
- The God Who Serves
- The Lord of All the Earth Does As He Pleases
- When Terrorists Strike Are They Doing God's Will?
- How Strong Is God? Incomprehensible
- Is God the GOAT?
- Of Love and Birds' Nests
- The Christian God is an In-Your-Face Troublemaker.
- Who Brings the Wind and Rain?
- Why Doesn’t God Kill the Coronavirus?
- Jesus
- An Image You Probably Won't See
- Debunking Zeitgeist
- Everybody Needs a King
- Jesus as a Servant
- Jesus, Please Teach Me Your Ways
- Merry Christmas from the Prince of Future Time
- Really, Lord? Shepherds?
- Scot McKnight Interview: “The King Jesus Gospel” and McKnight Responds to Critics
- Thank You Jesus
- The Amazing Love of Jesus
- The Revelation of Jesus
- This May Be Hard to Hear. Jesus Doesn't Trust You.
- To The King
- Was Jesus Happy?
- What Is Jesus About Today?
- Jim's Ramblings
- A Reflection on the Death of Whitney Houston
- From Dead Wood to Life.
- How Can a Child Be the Greatest?
- Jesus and the Salt Talks
- Jesus Likes to Stir Up
- Lots of Lying at Christmas Time.
- Meaningless Hymns, Meaningless Scriptures, Kesha, and the Word of God
- Merry Christmas, Everyone!
- My Woe-Is-Me-I-Don't-Belong-In-The-Traditional-Or-Whatever-You-Call-It-Church Rant
- No, I Won't Write About Donald Trump.
- One Flutter of a Humming Bird’s Wing
- Poor Thing. You're So Heavenly Minded You're No Earthly Good.
- Pulling Down Statues
- Sorry, Christian, You Are Not the Least in God's Kingdom. That Spot Is Taken.
- The Curious Tale of the Lame Man Who Did Not Want to Be Healed
- The God-Denying American Wilderness
- The Twenty-Four Or So Moral Commandments of the United States
- Wanna Fight? What Should a Christian Do?
- What Is Heaven Like? Christians Will Be Judges and Rulers. Seriously?
- What Is Heaven Like? Incredible Worship.
- What Is Heaven Like? Saints with Wings, Floating on Clouds, and Saint Peter?
- Wow Humility
- You Say You Saw an Angel. Good. A Donkey Did, Too, Once.
- Judgment
- A Brief Word About Ezekiel and the Church
- Can't Control Yourself? Death's Got a Warrant
- Don't Wanna Be Judged? Yeah. I Get That.
- Hope Never. Flame Forever.
- I Really Am a Foolish Follower of Jesus: He Shakes My Soul Again.
- Judgment Time in America
- Judgment Time in America. Part Two: Offerings to Molech.
- Pontius Pilate and Me
- The Judgment of Christ
- There Will Be Justice.
- Will the Lord Ask Christians, "What Did You Do When You Knew Judgment Was Coming?"
- Yes. I Will Give Account Before Jesus. Every Careless Word.
- You're Gonna Be a Judge in Heaven
- Last Days
- A Reflection on the Massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
- Alas, Babylon!
- Breaking News: Evil is Good. Good is Evil.
- Prophecy: First the Bad News.
- Scoff, if You Want. Jesus is Returning
- Someday, People Will Worship an Image That Breathes and Seems to be Alive.
- The Apostasy and the Day of the Lord
- The Man of Lawlessness
- The Man of Lawlessness: He Is Coming
- The Time of the End Unrolling.
- Thoughts on the Last Days: I Don't Want to be Hated
- Thoughts on the Last Days: Jesus' Letters to the Church
- Thoughts on the Last Days: The Man Of Lawlessness
- Thoughts on the Shooting at Santa Fe High School.
- Troubled Thoughts About the End of Days
- Leadership
- Biblical Leadership
- Christians Be Like: Leadership–Yes! Servanthood–Huh?
- Commending Our Leaders
- Contemporary Church Leadership Is Upside Down
- Do We Lead Like The Gentiles?
- Leaders Are Nothing
- Leaders Suffer
- Leaders Who Die
- Leadership and the Culture of Personality
- Leadership That Is Biblical
- Questions We Should Ask Before Starting a Church
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Should Church Leaders Die?
- The Anti-biblical Preference of Western Church Leadership
- The Tragedy of Leadership Exaltation
- What Does It Mean to be a "Successful" Church Leader?
- Would Jesus Be a Leader in the Western Church Today?
- Legalism
- Marriage
- Money and Possessions
- Politics, Governments, Nations
- A Christian In The American Culture
- A Degradation That Will Live in Infamy
- A Drop From the Bucket
- A Lament for the United States of America
- Abraham Lincoln and the Jews
- American Election and Eternal Reality
- Dear American Christian: Do Not Make Unholy Political Alliances
- Distress Over The Election
- Losing the Election and Losing the Culture
- Sick to Death of Politics? God Gets That.
- The Battle Of Armagedon and the United States
- The Forgotten Quality of a Wise Ruler
- We Do Not Honor His Name
- Why the United States Is Scary Now
- Prayer
- Prophecy
- Salvation
- Absorbing the Avalanche of Feculence
- An Amazing Consultation Between Three Persons
- An Unbeliever Undergoes a Paradigm Change
- Are Gay People Going to Hell Because They're Gay?
- Be Kind to Nicodemus. He Didn't Understand Being Born Again. You Might Not, Either.
- Brian Welch of Korn
- Come Home, Marty Sampson. Come Home, Joshua Harris.
- Muslims Are Having Visions of Jesus Christ?
- Nicodemus and the Strange, Slow Path to Salvation
- Spiritual DNA
- The Wonderful Word "However"
- There Is No Middle Ground
- Sin
- Suffering / Grief / Death
- Thanks / Thankfulness
- The Church
- A Troublesome, Annoying Woman
- A Warning
- A Young Pastor and Leader Shares His Thoughts About the Church
- Christians Are Great at Rebuking and Binding. How Are We at Repenting?
- Christians Will Be Conquered
- Destroying a Shallow, False Christian Meme.
- Disallowing Those Less Favored
- Do Christians Worship Idols?
- Driving Me Mad: The Four Spiritual Laws
- Evangelicals. Christians Don’t Have to Find Their Vision. Or Their Purpose.
- God May Break Our Bones
- God Uses The Least Among Us
- God's Going To Blow The Whole Thing Up
- Hey
- Is the American Church in Trouble?
- Is Your Church on Jesus' Hit List?Is Your Church on Jesus' Hit List?
- Jesus Wept
- Misunderstood Scriptures
- One Enormous Apathetic Church Shrug
- Pagan Christians
- Passivity, Spiritual Weakness and Disrepair
- Pastors. Do You Really Think You Can Grow a Church?
- Seeking a Sign from God? You Might Just be Evil.
- Sleeping Beauty
- Spiritual Fathers in a Totaled-Yugo Culture
- Taking the Kingdom of Heaven by Force
- The Last Real Move Of God
- The Massacre in Las Vegas: Days of Lawlessness, Days of Compassion
- The Sad State of the Evangelical Church
- The Strange Sad Case of Laban the Abominable
- Trying To Fill Slots in the Ecclesiastical Machinery
- Two Questions about Money and Earthly Power
- Vision Casting and the Caravan of Death
- Wake Up!
- What You Have Seen in Media About Exorcism Is Wrong.
- When is the Church the Most Properous
- Where Mormons and Evangelicals Meet.
- Who Gets the Glory in Your Church?
- Wow. Is Our Church Good, Or What?
- Truth Verses Winds Of Doctrine
- A Most Baffling Bible Study
- Are You a Worthy Christian?
- ChristainSpeak: Puzzling Things That Christians Say, Pray, and Sing
- Confessions of a (Hopefully) Maturing (Formerly?) Charismatic Believer
- Dear Christian Please Do Not Try to Change the World
- Did the Apostle Peter Have a Purpose-Driven Life?
- Do Christians Have Spiritual Power?
- Gettin' Those Scripture Willies
- I'm Fat. I Need to Lose Weight Because I'm a Temple of the Holy Spirit.
- It Is Dreadful to be Alone with the New Testament
- Laying Our Lives Along the Plumb Line of Scripture
- Misunderstanding Elijah and God's Still Small Voice
- My Last Message to the Church in Bangalore India
- Not So Fast. What Is Romans 12:1-8 Really About?
- On Dealing with Demonic Powers–Biblically
- Our Counter-Intuitive God
- Rick Warren and the Daniel Weight Loss Plan
- Super-Spiritual Christians. Give Me a Break.
- The Apostle Paul's Strange Admonition
- The Crazy Things Christians Think
- The Me-Centered Gospel: Welcome to the Evangelical Church.
- The Purpose Driven Lie
- The Vision-Casting Lie
- The Word of Faith Lie
- There's a Bathroom on the Right
- Twisted Lies: The Word of Faith and Prosperity Doctrines.
- What Is Most Important? Grace or Obedience to the Law?
- What Kind of People Does the Lord Choose?
- What Is God Saying? What Is God Doing?
