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Glorify God with Your Body
Lenten Devotional Series Day 27. Today’s meditation is on 1 Cor 6:12-20. By God’s design, we are physical beings in a physical world. Before sin entered the world, God made us to reflect his image in human bodies, and he called what he had made very good. Then came the rebellion in Eden and two…
Read MoreAdultery Begins in the Heart
Lenten Devotional Series Day 26. Today’s meditation is on Matthew 5:27-30. It is hard to manage our hungers. We hunger for various things: success, recognition, admiration, respect, and love, among others. A Christ-centered appetite is good, but when our appetites start to control us they become idols which we serve in the place of our…
Read MorePurity, Modesty & Fidelity
Lenten Devotional Series Day 25. Today’s meditation is on the seventh commandment, “You shall not commit adultery,” found in Exodus 20:14. In Matthew 12:43-45, Jesus warned the Pharisees that deliverance from Satan’s power without an accompanying conversion to faith in him would only leave a person ripe for worse Satanic oppression. One demon gone: good.…
Read MoreArticle on Church of the Incarnation
The current edition of the Anglican Mission’s magazine features an article on the Rev. Dr. Aubrey Spears and our sister congregation, the Church of the Incarnation in Harrisonburg.
Read MoreGetting Serious about Sex
Lenten Devotional Series Day 24. Today’s meditation is on the seventh commandment, “You shall not commit adultery,” found in Exodus 20:14. Adultery is sexual intimacy between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. The seventh commandment explicitly prohibits adultery, and by implication, any and all other sexual acts outside of marriage. If…
Read MoreMurder in the Church
Lenten Devotional Series Day 23. Today’s meditation is on 1 John 3:10-15. John writes, “Do not be surprised that the world hates you.” Why would the world hate Christians?
Read MoreMurder Begins in the Heart
Lenten Devotional Series Day 22. Today’s meditation is on Matthew 5:21-26. Jesus said, “[21] You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ [22] But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to…
Read MoreCultivating the Art of Christian Friendship
True Christian friendship is a rewarding act of love, involving time and commitment, openness and vulnerability, trust and faithfulness, prayer and thanksgiving, hospitality and feasting, laughter and joy, tears and heartache. It reaches out not only to those who are friendly to me, nor only to those who are like me, but to my neighbor whoever he might be. It is gentle, patient, forgiving, and kind, but also frank, honest, and challenging. “Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but an enemy multiplies kisses” (Proverbs 27:6). A true friend knows when to be silent and when to speak, when to encourage, and when to rebuke.
Read MoreThou Shalt Not Murder… Anyone
“The result of American polling is uniform: most Americans believe both that abortion for other than exceptional reasons is the unjust taking of a human life and that women would have the right to procure abortion for any reason that compels them. That is, the American people have in this matter abdicated moral coherence.”
Read MoreHaving the Faith of a Child
Lenten Devotional Series Day 19. Today’s meditation is on Luke 18:15-43. Jesus loves our children. Even the tiniest ones. He loves them in the womb, he loves them in their mother’s arms. He loves them even when they start running around, getting under our feet, and fighting with their siblings. He loves them, and he…
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