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Job is a man in agony, and he’s been pelting God with questions because of it. He wants to know—as would anyone—how the Lord could allow him to suffer for no apparent reason. Like a lawyer shooting out questions in rapid-fire succession,…
All the characters in this short letter get “squeezed” by the gospel. Onesimus gets squeezed by having to take responsibility for his crimes against Philemon and make an effort to be reconciled to him. Philemon gets squeezed by having to accept Onesimus…
In Part 2 of our series, we put ourselves in the sandals of Philemon, the slave owner. As Paul’s letter unfolds, Philemon begins to get the point: “Your slave, Onesimus, who stole from you and ran away, is coming back. In fact,…
It is universally true, thankfully, that decent folks don’t like it when people take advantage of other people. Wherever we go in the world—from the most primitive cultures to the most civilized societies—people do not appreciate the intentional oppression of other people,…
Life is filled with riddles and illusions. We’re often surrounded by mysteries and conundrums. We can’t always figure out what’s going on around us or why things happen the way they do. Sometimes our minds get confused and we need help to…
The word “saint” (Eph 3:18) is a descriptive noun for the people of God in both the Old and New Testaments. The root of the word is “holy,” which means “set apart.” From the time of the Exodus, the Israelites came to…
Pastor Tim’s birth certificate has always been as mysterious as President Obama’s. There are, to be sure, a lot fewer people in the world who are interested in his birth certificate than there were in the President’s. Still, Tim’s is crazy. For…
Jesus’s perfect obedience to his Father and sacrificial death on the cross for the world satisfied God’s just demand for sin to be punished. Consequently, those who trust in Christ alone for salvation can know God by faith. Not only can they…
One of the most tragic changes Christianity has experienced in the last 50 years is the minimizing of the centrality of the local church in the life of believers. The Lord’s Day used to be considered sacred. It was dedicated to the…
If you knew that you were going to die tomorrow at 3 p.m., what would you do tonight at 9 p.m.? Who would you be with? How would you spend your time? What would be the final memory you give yourself before…
Jesus achieved something in his death that God the Father recognized, namely, humanity’s sin crisis was rectified once and for all. Indeed, the NT presents Jesus as God’s chosen substitute for all humanity. As the old hymn by Phillip Bliss puts it:…
These two devotionals were part of the 2021 Maundy Thursday Service at Christ Community Church. The former “Jesus, the Servant” (John 13:1-17) focuses on the radical humility of “the God who does feet,” including those of his enemies, like Judas. The latter,…
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