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20 verses to rebuild your faith
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đź’ˇThis is Day/Week 9 of my devotional series on "20 Verses to Rebuild Your Theology." I'm particularly proud of this one, so I'm sending it out to all my readers today. However, if you want access to the rest of the series, you
Part 2: Some Ground Rules We've established who God is—love itself, characterized by patience, kindness, gentleness, and all the fruits of the Spirit. We've seen that Jesus is the clearest revelation of divine character, that fear has no place in authentic faith, and that truth
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." — John 8:32 The Great Protestant Irony There's a particular irony baked into Protestant history we need to talk about. The Reformation kicked off with this revolutionary idea: we're saved by grace
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." — John 10:10 In 2018, my brother died in a car accident. I had performed his wedding just two years before. And much of his church'
"Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own but only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise." —John 5:19 When Children See More Clearly My daughter Audrey was maybe five when we read a
"By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things." —Galatians 5:22-23 What Grows in Your Garden? When I was six, some adult convinced me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I&
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable. It keeps no record of wrongs. It does not rejoice in injustice but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, trusts