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  • Holiness

    It is very difficult to describe holiness without circularity. To be holy means to be set apart for sacred use, but, of course, “sacred” is just another word for holy. Certainly one important characteristic of holiness is set-apart-ness, separation from others of the same kind. The first use of a word meaning “made holy” in…

  • Letting Evil Win

    When God created the world and everything in it, his appraisal of all he had made was that it was very good. Every good gift comes from God, and he is incapable of doing evil because his very nature is love. Evil entered the world when people first began to suspect that God was not…

  • Zach’s Story

    Based on Luke 19:1-10 The name’s Zach. I know I’m not much to look at. Never have been. I’m short. Vertically challenged. Lacking in stature. I’ve met 10-year-olds taller than me. I got picked on a lot as a kid. I got tough, and I fought back. Maybe that’s why I became a revenue agent…

  • The God Who Rewards The Seeker

    In Hebrews chapter 11, the author catalogs people from Jewish history as examples of those who had faith. He includes Enoch, but the brief mention he gets in Genesis says nothing about his faith, so the author includes an aside to justify his inclusion. And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone…

  • Putting Things Right

    The central assumption of Christianity is that something is wrong with the world, and it needs to be put right. For Christians, the “something wrong” is human sin, a violation of the right order God created at the beginning. Putting things right we call “reconciliation,” and according to Paul it is a ministry belonging to…

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