Tag: faith
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Can a person truly have faith if their life doesn’t show it?
Vegans. When you’re a vegan, you don’t eat meat or use animal products. Being vegan is a lifestyle. Now if I said that I was vegan and invited you over to my place for dinner, and you said what are we having “surt and turt….we’re having some fish and steak” and then I was washing…
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Doing ministry with an “all things to all people” mindset
In 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, the Apostle Paul talks about being “all things to all people.” In the rest of the passage, he talks about different groups with whom he demonstrates this. While that passage is not an exhaustive guide to ministry, it provides significant insights into how to reach people for Jesus. Based on studying…
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Our sense of justice and the outrage over the botched Saints call
An egregious no-call in the Saints-Rams, NFC Championship game yesterday. Missed calls happen. But I don’t know if I can think of ever seeing a more consequential no-call that had a bigger impact on a game than the missed pass interference with 1:46 left to go in the game.
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The fruit of the Spirit – something we can’t produce
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. -Galatians 5:22-23 In the Book of Galatians, the Apostle Paul talks about the fruit of the Spirit. It’s a section that fascinates me. Because the fruit is produced by the Holy Spirit in…
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Purdue super fan Tyler Trent passes away
We don’t control the cards we’re dealt. All we can do is play what we have. Tyler Trent passed away on Tuesday. The Purdue student had battled a rare form of bone cancer. He had become a sensation in college football and Big Ten circles as being someone the Purdue football team rallied around this…
Josh Benner 