My wife and I were privileged to spend about a month over Christmas in Canada visiting our family. It was my first time back in Canada in over 3 years. It was my wife’s second time and my …
If Any Man Defile The Temple of God
"According to the grace of God, given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can …
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Why I Harp on Discipleship | Podcast Episode
There’s really ONE specific thing Jesus commanded us to do: MAKE DISCIPLES of the Nations. Yet, depending on who you talk to, this is viewed as optional, or something only special people like …
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No, God’s NOT Going to Change His Mind In The End
I started to write the following blog post over the past weekend before I saw an article show up in my news feed that basically gave me pause for thought. Or at maybe it was pause for concern.It …
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How Star Trek: TNG Taught Me to Live Life On Purpose
I started writing this article for Medium.com nearly a year ago but never got around to posting it. When I decided to publish it on my blog, I was going to split it into two parts, but decided to …
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When Good Pastors Preach Boring Sermons
by MICAH LANG The worship band had just finished singing “I Stand Amazed” and I, along with 800 pastors, church leaders, and members gathered for the Vision New England Conference sat down as …
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Fulfilling Your Purpose
There isn't really any money in what I do "for a living", but I wake up looking forward to teaching the Word of God to disciples in our Oikos School of Ministry. I love preparing and planning my …
I Never Knew… Who Exactly?
Let me begin today's post by sharing something that happened when I used to work at Subway on a main street in downtown Peterborough, Ontario during my gap year after high school. At this …
Are You Making The Best Use of Your Life?
It looks like I'm not the only one having epiphanies about making disciples. J. Lee Grady, the former editor of Charisma magazine and the director of The Mordecai …
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By Life or By Death
"as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death." Philippians …
What Are You Investing In?
"For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a …
Would You Cut Off Your Own Hand If Your Life Depended On It?
I remember a scene from the first Mad Max movie, after or around the climax, I can't remember specifically since it's been a while, and my memory may be failing me. Mel Gibson's character is …
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Who Goes To Hell? | Podcast with Joel Crumpton
Does hell really exist? Of course it does, and that's not what we talk about today on the podcast, but rather who goes there and how to know if you're one of them and what to do about it. We …
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Love Wins? This Book Doesn’t | A Review
A few months ago, I purchased my first Kindle device online and I finally got it when my pastor from Canada brought it with him when he was here during the early weeks of May. The first two books …
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It’s All Grace?
Many of us read how God dealt with His people in the Old Testament, and see a God who wiped entire nations off the face of the earth including the women and children. We read of people being …
The Fire of Delayed Breakthrough
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me." (Psalm …
The Recovery of Sharpened Proclamation
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of …
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Does God REALLY Send Natural Disasters?
Updated September 8th, 2017My Response To Pat Robertson's Comments Regarding The Earthquake in HaitiIs America under the judgment of God? I feel the need to share some thoughts on the …
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The Parable Of The Shrewd Manager: Received Into Eternal Dwellings?
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you,make friends …
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What Are You Building With?
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field." (Matthew 13:44, ESV) I may …
Counterfeit Mixed in With the Genuine (Matthew 13:24-30)
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were …
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Redeeming Suffering For the Age To Come
I originally posted this on my blog in 2006 with little fanfare, and the themes and ideas germinated and took root in me over the years as I meditated on them and and eventually published a short …
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