Category: Solidarity
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~Before the Cross~
15.October.2026 An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal”Yesterday I said we would look at what healing looked like before the cross, and it matters for one simple reason. Before Calvary, nobody had been born again in the way the New Testament describes, and yet the sick were healed anyway. Healing never waited on a person to be…
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~Not Sloppy~
14.October.2026 An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal” Yesterday we said a starting point is never an excuse to be sloppy, so here is what sloppy looks like. It is living from Sunday to Sunday, expecting the pastor to pick up the pieces, and then going right back to life as if nothing ever changed. It is…
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~More Than Enduring~
11.October.2026 An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal”Yesterday we looked at the two things Jesus sent us to do. Today is about what keeps us able to do them, because the commission is bigger than simply getting through the week. It starts with a hymn many of us grew up singing. “He Lives,” written by Alfred H.…
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~As the Father Sent Me~
9.October.2026 An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal”This is too weighty to be contained in a single day, so what follows is the first of two possibly three. Before we talk about what Jesus sent us to do, we have to look at Who sent us, how He did it. The heart of it must come from…
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~Whose Number Is This~
6.October.2026 An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal” Yesterday we sat down and counted the cost of following Jesus. Today the question turns around, because anywhere decisions get collected, a tally begins to form, and a tally always raises the same question. Whose number is this? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So…
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~Two Kinds of Sorry~
An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal” 3.October.2026 There is a kind of sorry that only shows up after getting caught, and there is a kind of sorry that has nothing to do with being caught at all. Scripture shines the truth on this perfectly. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but…
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~Lord, Lord~
An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal” 1.October.2026 Yesterday I established that this is not casual. Today I want to go one step further, into territory that should unsettle anyone reading it, because Jesus Himself did not soften the one-two punch of it. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom…
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~Worship in Spirit and Truth~
29.September.2026 Every post this week has aimed at one question underneath all the others. Once a tradition of men has been identified and set aside, what actually takes its place? Jesus answered that clearly to a woman who had spent her whole life inside an argument about the correct location and method of worship. But…
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~Set Free from Empty Ways~
28.September.2026 Peter did not describe the life before Christ as sin in the way we usually think of it, a list of bad choices that someone made on their own. He described it as something inherited, a whole way of living that was handed to a person before they were ever old enough to choose…
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~Whose Report Will You Believe~
23.September.2026 I grew up singing a hymn I still remember word for word. I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew. It closes with, and I hope to be one too. I sang that…
