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IT MAY BE MORE DIFFICULT TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE TODAY THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY One of the greatest challenges facing the church in America today is the shallow-ization of Christianity. For the last several decades many of us have read the statistics generated...

  DON'T LOOK FOR HAPPINESS IN THE WRONG PLACES Perhaps the ultimate value in American culture is happiness. That value goes back as far as our Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their...

RESPONDING BIBLICALLY TO DIFFICULT PEOPLE IS ONE OF LIFE'S GREATEST CHALLENGES The second greatest command is: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:39).  So, it is no small thing to love your neighbor! Yet, all of us have the challenge of loving people who are particularly difficult to love. They...

  WE HAVE TO LEARN TO OPERATE ON GOD'S TIME As you likely already know, God’s time is not our time.  While God’s time may rarely be faster than our time, typically, it is slower.  Often, much slower. God’s Time Often Seems Slow We see this repeatedly throughout Scripture. ...

GOD WORKS INCREMENTALLY WITH US, TAKING US FROM SMALL FAITH TO GREATER FAITH I’m fascinated with animal training when I see a parallel between how a trainer works with an animal and how God works with us. The trainer’s goal is to get the animal to trust...