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Calling All Gen Z

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Disability and The Church

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The Future of the Church

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Putting Politics Back in Christmas

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The Gospel and the Redistribution of Wealth

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What Does it Mean to “Become More Like Jesus?”

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Dive Bar Church

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Grace/Truth 2.0

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My Nashville Statement

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Meditate

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What Is a Christian Sexual Ethic?

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My Discontent with Discontentment

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What Is True Friendship?

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When Santa Claus Straight Knocked Out Arius

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Peppa Pig and Christmas in the South

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Jesus’s Upside Down Kingdom

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Why I Stopped Pledging Allegiance

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Downward Glory

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Should Christians Drink Alcohol?

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The End of My Joyful Journey with Eternity Bible College

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Love: Our Greatest Witness

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Empower Your Outliers

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A Homeless Peasant Born in a Feeding Trough

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Allegiance to One

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F-Bombs and Bikinis: What It Really Means to Be a Christian

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In Respect of Pastors

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Do We Really Need That Chandelier?

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I’m Still Alive

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Go: Returning Discipleship to the Front Lines of Faith

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Growing Up Gay and Christian

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The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray

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This Year’s Gonna be Better

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Post-Christmas Reflections on the Incarnation

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Christian Discipleship with a Pinch of Doubt

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What Does it Mean to Become More Like (the actual 1st Century) Jesus?”

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Evangelicals and Homosexuality

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A Christian Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

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Jesus Was a Jew: Understanding Jesus and Same-Sex Marriages in His 1st Century Jewish (Not Our 21st Century Western) Context

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My Recovery in the Evangelical Church with Same Sex Attraction

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The Girl You Didn’t Know Needed You

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What Can We Learn from the Millennials Leaving the Church in Droves? Part 5

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Why Millennials Might Be Leaving the Church in Droves for the Wrong Reasons: Part 4

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Why Are White Millennials Leaving White Church in Droves?

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4 Questions for Preston Sprinkle, by Josh Packard

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Why Are Millennials Leaving the Church in Droves? Part 3

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Jesus’s Uncanny Residence

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Why Are Millennials Leaving the Church in Droves? Part 2

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Why Are Millennials Leaving the Church in Droves? Part 1

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If Your Church Closed Its Doors, Would the Neighborhood Care?

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Sex, Science, and Becoming More Like Jesus

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What Is Discipleship?

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Impossible Discipleship

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When Being “Pro Life” Is No Longer a Theoretical Position

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Why I (Still) Believe in Believer’s Baptism

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Nepal Earthquake Relief

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Slum God

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The Blessing of Leprosy

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Touch Nepal

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A Better Way to Do Short Term Missions (part 4): A Summary

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Do Short-Term Missions Produce Long-Term Benefit? A Better Way to Do Short Term Missions (part 3)

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Missions for Me: A Better Way to Do Short Term Missions (part 2)

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A Better Way to Do Short-Term Missions (Part 1)

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Human Sexuality and the Church

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True Beauty

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Liturgy: The Shape of Worship

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Liturgy: Every Church Has One

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Thank you MacArthur, Piper, Wright, and MLK

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Is Jesus My Boyfriend?

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Should Christians Watch Movies with Swearing?

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Books I’m going to (try to) read this year

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The Best Conference of 2015!

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reformed but not Reformed*

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Martin Luther King

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The Benefits of Homeschooling

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The Dangers of Homeschooling: Part 2

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The Dangers of Homeschooling

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Can Grace and Obedience Be Friends?

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Are House Churches Biblical?

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We Are Creatures of Habit

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Bobble-Head Christians

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Bringing Theology Back to the Church

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A Response to John Piper on Romans 7

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Ethinic Diversity: How Important Is It?

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A Christian Response to ISIS

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More Thoughts on Church

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