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Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/what-is-logic-why-does-it-matter/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ *Editor’s Note: As Christians, we ought to strive to be the best thinkers we can be. Why? It’s because thinking reasonably is one of the hallmarks of humanit...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/grandparenting-advantages-for-discipling-kids/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ “ It’s true that the Bible talks about parents way more than it talks about grandparents. The most foundational family discipleship passages in...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/refusing-to-believe-a-retelling-of-jesus-appearance-to-thomas/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Young John escaped the ravenous agnosticism tormenting the other disciples by insightfully seeing meaning in the evidence Jesus...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/auschwitz-and-the-agnostic/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ It was in the spring of 2007, if I’m recalling correctly, that I first traveled to Slovakia. I was younger then, though not so young as to believe I had seen enoug...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org; https://renew.org/is-the-shroud-of-turin-real/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ I’ll just go ahead and say it. I believe that the Shroud of Turin is the authentic burial shroud of Jesus. Further, I believe that the resurrection is the best ex...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/when-i-find-myself-running-ahead-of-jesus/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ “You’re not struggling to hear me, So I’m not striving to be heard I am sure the One who made me, Is catching every word When You’re this close, I r...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/who-was-elihu-in-the-bible/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Theology is word that literally means the study of God. So, the entire Bible is theology, but if we wanted to learn about who God is, we would probably think first...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/should-we-care-about-the-shroud-of-turin/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ “And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wra...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: hhttps://renew.org/eternal-life-now/  This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Heaven. When Christians think of eternal life in heaven, we may think of the imagery of heaven: gold streets, pearly gates, mansions, other believers, and the presence of Go...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/church-in-thyatira/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Going east from  Pergamum  along the river, then south through some hills, you would then go into the long valley of Lycus. It would be a 40-mile journey and then you woul...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/cautiously-pro-ivf-a-christian-proposal/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Josh and Emily have been in your small group for nearly two years. Because you have laughed, cried, and prayed together almost every Sunday night, you...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/putting-words-to-hurt/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Church trauma is something that comes up often in our culture today. It’s talked about everywhere—and yet, trying to discern which stories are fully true, misunderstood...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/why-is-the-bible-so-hard-to-understand/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Why is the Bible so hard to understand? Here are some key takeaways from this article: The Bible can be hard to understand because we don’t take time t...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/sabbath-wont-just-happen/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ It feels impossible to find time to meet. Check your calendar for openings, notify me of availability, and see what might look good in the next few weeks. Six months...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/church-is-boring/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ When someone says or thinks that church is boring, what is it exactly that they are bored by? Here are three times a church gathering actually is boring—to us and, I want to...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/practicing-the-presence/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ “I’m busy!” Those words are uttered so frequently that we do not even notice them anymore. Our culture wears those words like a badge of honor. “I’m busy” unfortunate...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/sing-to-the-lord-a-new-song/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Four times we are told in Scripture to “sing to the LORD a new song” (Psalm 96:1; 98:1; 149:1; Isaiah 42:10). Every song ever sung was new at some point. How many...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/pastoral-burnout/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Being a minister is hard. Being a lead minister in 2024, post-COVID in the United States, is harder than ever. Barna Research Group’s 2022 research revealed that 41% of lead...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/do-you-have-spiritual-heartburn/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?” (Luke 24:32, ESV) These...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/what-prevents-us-from-life-transformation/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ At a ministry conference recently, I commented that, when measured against the heart of God in the Sermon on the Mount, large segments of American C...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/what-does-our-faith-teach-that-our-society-needs/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Christianity emerged in a world vastly different from the values espoused by followers of Christ. Slavery was assumed to be a necessary part...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/led-by-the-spirit-5-more-ways-to-listen/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ We are told throughout the New Testament that the alternative to walking in sinful ways and in the same old errors of the world is to be led by the Ho...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/led-by-the-spirit/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Many people assume that the only “real” world is the one that they can observe with their five senses. Yet the Bible teaches that there is another reality just as real. Alt...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/when-you-have-to-regroup/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Sarah had a plan. Then she convinced her husband, Abraham, to participate. Even though it succeeded, it made her miserable. And created a mess for everyone else invo...

Click here to read the full article at RENEW.org: https://renew.org/wait-on-the-lord/   This is an audio version of a written Article from RENEW.org Check out other great articles on RENEW.org here: https://renew.org/articles/ Let me share with you a truth I learned by the time I was a toddler: the people of God wait. A lot. My dad’s a preacher. There were quite a few years as I was growing up tha...