Tag: the church at sunsites
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Cheers! A Response to P31 Momma and The Church at Sunsites
Normally, I would respond to someone privately, even if their comments were as public as yours. Scripture teaches us to, if we see sin in a brother or sister that needs to be addressed, go to them in private to share our concerns. Instead, you posted some very public and hateful comments on the YouTube…
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Distinguishing Sincere and Suspicious Love
What is Biblical love? Everyone claims to love others. Every person seems to think he or she has a handle on what love is. There is not a single person I know who thinks him or herself to be unloving, but almost every person seems to intuitively know who, other than self, is unloving. I…
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Be All Things To All People
In 2014, I worked third-shift at a grocery store. Most of my coworkers did not know Jesus. One coworker loved the television show Breaking Bad. If you don’t know Breaking Bad, it is a television show about how a chemistry teacher becomes a meth synthesizer and dealer. I neither had interest in watching the show…
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Stepping On Life’s Scale
This morning, the text presents us with a summary of Israel’s recent history up to this point and of 1 Samuel chapters 1-11. It has taken us 23 weeks to get to chapter 12, and those of us who have been committed to coming and sitting under the explicit word of God in the order…
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Life Update: Ministry in the Desert
On October 30, 2017, I was forced out of a ministry in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Some of you know the story. I met with our deacons (yes, the kind that are quasi-elders) with the intention of evaluating the way we did church in light of what we saw in the Bible. It was made very clear,…