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• A little bit different

  Christian leadership is a bit different than secular leadership. What business leadership seminar would ever describe leadership as the path towards crucifixion? But Jesus says if we are not willing to pick up our cross, we are not even able to follow Him.

• An accepting ministry part 2

  The difference between Jesus and the Pharisees is not in the fact that the Pharisees took sin seriously and Jesus didn’t. The difference between Jesus and the Pharisees is found rather in the way that they related to people they knew to have sinned – the way they treated sinners. I don’t want to take […]

• An accepting ministry part 1

  In Jesus’ day people had a caricature of what it meant to be holy. They thought it meant not ever hanging out with anyone who might be considered a sinner. In our day, people have a caricature of what it means to be accepting. They think it means never ever directly confronting sin. There are […]

• Lies…

  In Ephesians 4:25 Paul says ‘put away falsehood.’ In other words, don’t lie. But what exactly does he mean by that? What does it mean to lie? Here are some examples I came up with: 1. I am speaking falsehood when I contradict the truth. I am talking about the times when someone is saying […]

• Truth!

  It is all too rare a thing to find a man who consistently speaks the truth. I want to be one. Here are ten reasons why you should want to be a truth teller as well: 1. Speaking the truth is a characteristic of a godly man. 2. God pleads with us to speak the […]