A Parade Fit for a King

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Batman was my boyhood hero. Truth be told, in many ways he still is. He transformed his grief over his parents’ senseless murders into ...

What Shall I Bring Him?

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A Christian comedian once said this story would be far different had these been women instead of men. For one thing, women would have asked ...

Advent: Joy

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Christian Wiman, the celebrated poet, professor of literature at Yale and Christian intellectual, in his book Joy, which is a collection ...

Return of the King

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When was the last time you couldn’t wait for something to happen? During the summer of 2020, my wife, Sierra, and I could not wait to ...

A Better Covenant

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These Jewish Christians, who've grown up under the law, but now they've come to trust Christ are facing possible persecution ...

The Lord Needs It

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As we started tonight, you helped reenact one of the biggest moments in the life of Jesus, which was when he enters Jerusalem, which was the ...

How Can I Be a Gift at Christmas?

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As we live in the gap between Christmas expectations and Christmas reality, we end up raising really profound questions about this whole deal ...

Jesus Is Our Only Refuge

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One of the things I find surprising about Joel is he doesn't really talk about the first coming of Christ. What he does talk about is ...

The Invitation

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We're starting a new series today called The Heart of Christ. Let's begin by looking at Psalm 96. Psalms are actually songs, and Psalm 96 ...

The Divine Legacy

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I'll never forget walking into the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., maybe 20 years ago. Just inside the ...