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Recycled Kingdom

These days we’re supposed to recycle everything. That’s actually something we learned from our Creator. He’s been in the recycling business from the beginning –

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Clothes Make the Man

Do clothes reflect character, or does character influence clothing choice? And what relevance does that question have to God’s people? Exodus 27:20-30:10; Ezekiel 43:10-27; Matthew

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Authority to Break

Our Creator has been delegating His authority from the beginning. He’s got some very important reasons for doing that. We’re miss those reasons, however, if

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On the Horns of Redemption

It could be said that the story of redemption is the story of Israel. We who have come into redemption from the nations often miss

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Divine Lapse of Judgment?

On top of all the other hard questions about why things are as they are, how about this: if God knew that it wasn’t good

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Even Without Bread

One question we don’t like to ask is, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Maybe we don’t like to ask it because we

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Sprinkling the Dogs

We love our dogs, but because they are dogs, sometimes they get into things that make them repulsive to us. That’s when they need some

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Divine Expectation Management

Life is an endless series of negotiations. Children and parents negotiate their relationships and boundaries, business partners negotiate contracts, social organizations negotiate bylaws, and nations

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A Bride’s Journey

If marriage is a picture of our collective relationship with our Messiah, then we might want to pay more attention to how that relationship is

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