Taking Life Seriously

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A lot of things happened in 1973. I was a teenager with a face filled with acne and an appetite for adventure. Beth was a cute ten-year-old ...

You Can’t Look Away

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If you haven’t had the chance yet, I highly recommend the Netflix documentary titled, My Octopus Teacher. Yes, you heard that right: ...

Abortion or Adoption

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In today’s Gospel we have Jesus reading scripture to the people and telling them good news. And they loved it and they loved him. In ...

‘Imago Dei’: One Kingdom. Indivisible.

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We’re in an election year. While we won’t tell you who to vote for, we do want to equip you with a biblical understanding of our ...

The Zone of Radical Hospitality

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If you head north on I-35 West out of Minneapolis, take Exit 220, and then go five miles on County Road Six, you’ll hit the farm home ...

God's Love for the Unborn

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Several years before I became the pastor here [at Tenth Church in Vancouver, BC], my predecessor was talking to a group of people at the church, ...

Behind the Headlines

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I'd like to begin with a reading from John 8:2-11.

At dawn Jesus appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around ...

Murderers and the Murdered One

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We're in our sixth week in our series on the Ten Commandments and today we're talking about the sixth commandment, Deuteronomy 5:17: "You ...

Choose Life

Today I want to show you arguments from Scripture against abortion. They are not primarily rooted in biology; for example, when is life viable. That's ...

A Little Lower Than the Angels

There are times when the church of Jesus Christ needs to confront straightforwardly a supreme national tragedy. On Wednesday of this week we will mark ...

A Heartbeat from Disaster

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In this particular passage of Scripture, the nation of Israel, to the north, has fallen so far from God's desire and purpose that he has ...

Knowing the God Who Knows You

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Have you ever asked yourself how many times you are photographed in a day? When you walk into the bank or return your cart to the corral in ...

A Man Like Us and a God Who Lives

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Elijah is one of the Bible's most dramatic characters, because he experienced the light of God's presence even when everything around him ...

Don't You Believe It! Our Lives Are Not Our Own

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A new missionary recruit went to Venezuela for the first time. He was struggling with language and didn't understand a whole lot of what ...