Month: September 2025
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What Real Forgiveness Looks Like
Forgiveness is one of the hardest commands Jesus gave His followers. It’s easy to say the word but living it out cuts deep. Real forgiveness is more than overlooking an offense or saying, “It’s fine.” It’s a deliberate act of grace that reflects the mercy God has shown us. When Joseph stood before the very…
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Learning From Leviticus
The book of Leviticus often feels distant to modern readers. Kristina and I have just finished the book in our daily Bible reading, and I’m sure you feel like us, it was a struggle to get through. Page after page details sacrifices, offerings, and rituals that seem foreign in our time. Yet these sacrifices were…
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Living As Strangers In A Watching World
Peter reminds his readers, “Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:11–12).…
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Who Is Responsible For Division?
“If divisions are made, it is easy to see who causes them. He that excludes, and not he that is excluded, is the schismatic.” (Alexander Campbell, January 2, 1832). The church of Christ was never meant to be a fractured body. Jesus prayed that His disciples “may all be one… so that the world may…
Grace & Salt 