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DON’T SEND YOUR CHILD TO A SECULAR SCHOOL

This may sound funny coming from someone like me.  After all, my undergraduate degree is from a state school and my law degree is from a private, extremely secular Ivy League university but I will never pay a dime to send my son to a secular, state funded college.  Why?

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HOW I CAME TO KNOW THAT I DON’T TRULY YET UNDERSTAND GRACE

I have a hole in my back that won’t heal and it sucks.  It really, really sucks.

Last year, I had surgery and when I was in the hospital a spot on my back that apparently was already afflicted with a disease, became infected.  After several painful treatments and weeks of antibiotics, it became clear that I would have to have surgery.

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HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE A CHRISTIAN? PART 2

We are working through 1st John to ask what it really means to be a Christian.  Last week, we saw that a true follower of Jesus “lives in the light,” which means, at the very least, accepting the authority of God as THE authority in your life.

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HOW TO NOT HELP THE POOR

I have been serving as a pastor at an inner city church for more than 5-years now.  We are one of those churches who are committed to helping the “least among us” (Matt. 25:31-46).  As such, we hold annual “Free Markets” where we challenge each of our members to give away their extra to the needy.  We also help feed the food insecure every Friday evening.

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