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The atoning blood of Christ is more powerful than we could begin to imagine. The blood of a carpenter, king, friend, and savior was spilled so that our lives might be eternally secured, despite His innocence and our guilt. Boil…
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In this age of information overload, what do we honestly know? The answers to our questions are at our fingertips, but are our questions worth asking? American Christianity may well be crumbling beneath the weight of our quest for convenience…
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My composure is a veneer. Just beneath the surface lies the complicated and contradictory strands of my true identity. Within the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I’m an INFJ, which makes up less than one percent of the population and mingles together…
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A Response to Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism is Wrong by Barna Group I’m a millennial. Even though it’s just within the window, I still qualify since I was born in 1985. Millennials have many defining characteristics attributed…
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After nearly thirty years as a believer and fifteen in the ministry, this is perhaps the most difficult topic I’ve felt compelled to address. The difficulty comes because of the pharisaism in the first half of my Christian walk and…
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Our online empires are merely empires of dust. There are celebrity pastors, parachurch organizations, gifted authors, denominational gurus and of course amateurs like myself all vying for the limelight of being heard. The various cultural news pieces provide fodder to…
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Meditating on Acts 17:22-25, Mark 10:43-35 and 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 teach us that God is self-sufficient, Christ is the Servant-Savior, and that God is the sovereign supplier. See if you agree with the concept of giving thanks to an ungrateful God. https://www.calvinistpicard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Captains-Log-Episode-19-.mp3Podcast: Play in…
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Legalism and the prosperity gospel have more in common than you think. When God is viewed merely as a comic cop dispensing perpetual judgment when we don’t walk the line or a genie granting wishes, then we’ve fundamentally missed it….
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This past week I disconnected from all types of media. I didn’t tune in to the news on television, radio, or online. I didn’t engage or surf social media platforms. Why did I decide to do so? I noticed the…
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What if our conversations surrounding these issues were empowered by overflowing grace, defined by an abundance of joy, and motivated by earnest love? https://www.calvinistpicard.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Captains-Log-Ep.-18-92018-11.53-PM.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download