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Stop Performing in Your Prayer Closet
Stop Performing in Your Prayer Closet Part four of a series on the Religion Mask and what it costs the faithful This...
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The Cry Before the Song
The Cry Before the Song Part three of a series on the Religion Mask and what it costs the faithful Every preacher...
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The Foundation: God Acted First
The Foundation: God Acted First Part one of a series on the Religion Mask and what it costs the faithful Before you...
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I Will Not Dim Before I Am Done
There are poems that decorate language, and then there are poems that indict the soul. Dylan Thomas’ villanelle, written in 1951 as...
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When Shame Masquerades as the Gospel (atheist pt3)
There is a moment that always comes when you name a counterfeit god. It is not outrage. It is not debate. It...
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An Atheist Christian? How can it be? (Pt 1)
If I have to be an atheist in order to be a Christian in our culture, so be it. I will not...
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You Don’t Need to Posture Before God
I Am Always Spiritual, But Never Always One Thing For years, I lived under the weight of an assumption—that to be spiritual,...
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Dead Faith, We’re Saved, Let’s Live It.
James writes his letter to early Jewish Christians dispersed among the nations, addressing their struggles with living out their faith in a...
Read →Given, Not Made – A Biblical Theology of Discovered Identity
The Image of Christ, the Two Surgeries, and the New Testament Account of the Self James H. Tippins, Ph.D. The Autonomy Commission...
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I Quit. Finding Myself in the Clouds of Culture [June 6, 2024]
[Yesterday, Oct 20, 2024, I commented in my sermon that I had divorced from the old me. It reminded me of my...
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