Author: matt
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framework
For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. Ps 103:14 This is a house. Sort of. It’s just a frame really. Just a skeleton. Although the walls are really important, and the windows, and the roof will be essential, the frame IS the house. Without the frame, there is no house. These past…
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Five years of Nuttiness
Yesterday was my daughter Gemma’s birthday. She is five years old. The picture above is from her party over the weekend. That’s Claudia, her best buddy. My daughter is a nutty girl. She’s fun, she’s silly, she’s smart, she’s cute, and every now and then says something truly profound. Tonight we were playing hopscotch in…
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Rise Up: History, Revival and The Word
My latest book I’m reading is A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada by Mark Noll. This was incidentally, the textbook from the class that my wife and I met in almost nine years ago. I love history. It’s fascinating to me. My wife thinks I’m weird. Call me weird, but not…
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reaching for worthless things
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. Isaiah 55:2 Why do we reach for worthless things? Why are we passionate about things that do not satisfy? Why…
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a jumbled heart
And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd.. Mark 6:34 Jesus saw a whole bunch of people. He didn’t get annoyed that they were in the way. He didn’t say “ah ha — now is my chance to…
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the deceptive blue
…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God… Romans 3:23 This is a basic, essential truth of the gospel. That everyone of us have sinned. Have fallen short of God’s standard. In other places in the Bible, we learn that not only have we sinned unintentionally, but we have in…
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runaway
On Thursday night, on the way home from work, I saw a young man walking on the side of the road. I live in the sticks, so it’s not a real normal place to be walking to begin with. And I took a closer look and the figure seemed familiar. I got dropped off at…
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unfailingwords
Someone asked me where the name of this blog “unfailing words” came from. It comes from the story of Samuel — a young guy who the Lord used in a great way. Thus Samuel grew and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fail. – I Samuel 3:19 I think that most…
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give me that old time religion
Garrison Keilor once said, speaking of childhood — “I think of it as the olden days, the good old days when life was simple — but it’s just not true.” I think as Christians, we have this same illusion about the glorious past. We think if we could turn the clock back to 1950, everything…
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saintly beauty
Therefore, as [the] elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;bearing with one another, and forgiving one another…But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. (Col 3:12-14) What is true beauty? Traditionally in our culture, beauty is symmetrical. That means yours ears are…
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