“To tatt or not to tatt,” that is the question, and one that is often asked particularly by young people. Is it wrong, meaning sinful, for a Christian to get a tattoo? The short answer is no, but in order to do justice to this issue we need to consider two basic questions.
First, why do some ...
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In May of last year, a fire broke out in the neonatal unit of a hospital in Senegal. Faulty wiring was said to be the culprit and had the electrical circuits been properly installed, those children would be alive and well today. An essential part of manhood, and especially Christian manhood, is t...
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As you grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, God begins to influence others through you. The life of Jesus becomes increasingly manifest in your being (see 2 Corinthians 4:11). As you daily die to self, living through the Spirit, that glorious life of our Savior becomes a real...
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Suppose you could travel to one of the most remote areas of the world and find a tribesman who had never known anything but life in the jungle, without any knowledge of the modern world or its contrivances. Suppose you took him to one of America’s large cities and left him to fend for himself. Yo...
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Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! (Psalm 141:3)
Growing up playing Pop Warner Football, we were always required to wear mouth guards on the field to reduce the risk of dental injuries (although I would use the same mouth guard for an entire season, which ...
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All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. Proverbs 16:2
Since human nature hasn’t changed at all in the last 3,000 years since Solomon penned these words, they remain as relevant as ever. A biblical worldview holds that God made man in his image (Gen 1:27)...
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At a time when our country seems so divided, it would be easy to think divisiveness in itself is the problem. It is not! Rather, the root of our national woes is, and always has been, sin. Division itself is not always a bad thing. At times, it is an essential and necessary thing when its purpose...
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You may or may not have seen the ads that bill Jesus as “getting us.” The “HeGetsUs” campaign, rolled out by Haven, a Michigan-based marketing agency, seeks to attract skeptics and cultural Christians by showing how relevant Jesus is to their lives. With a $100 million price tag, it’s the largest...
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Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. (Acts 2:3 NLT)
There is nothing that sets the Christian apart from this world more than this amazing truth that God indwells him. It's also amazing because God's presence in the Old Testament often appeared ...
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Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. (1 Peter 2:11)
One of the great needs of our day is for Christian men to live as pilgrims. The familiar chorus reminds us, “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing th...
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