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The Real Alternative to Pharisaism

The Christian alternative to Pharisaism is not Publicanism but costly discipleship. The laxity of the Publican is just as repugnant to God as the self-righteousness ...


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Repentance in the Early Church

Repentance was an involved process in the early church. Sin was seen not as a personal matter but as something that destroyed the unity of the church. ...


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Real Repentance

Repentance is not a popular word these days, but I believe that any of us recognize it when it strikes us in the gut. Repentance is coming to our senses, ...


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Don't Put It Off

Repentance is always difficult, and the difficulty grows still greater by delay.


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Forgiveness: The Obvious Solution

In The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, the cartoon character Calvin says to his tiger friend, Hobbes, "I feel bad that I called Susie ...


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Acknowledging Sin

The man who knows his sins is greater than one who raises a dead man by his prayer.


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Come as You Are

A friend of mine named John Rogers used to teach at the Virginia Episcopal Seminary, and late one cold night he got a call from the bus station in Washington. ...


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Soul Remodeling

A sentence in one of the books [I was reading on osteoporosis prevention] struck me most: "Like all living tissue, bone is constantly being broken ...


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Surrendered to His Mercy

I recently read a story by a woman who said that as a girl she was poor. She said, "I grew up in a cold water flat, but I married a man who had money. ...


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Battle of Two Natures

The cuckoo is a common bird in England. The first sign of spring is that bird's call. The cuckoo never builds its own nest. When it feels an egg coming ...


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