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Are Christians Happier Than Non-Christians in This Life?
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Why are Christians most to be pitied if there’s no resurrection? Don’t we still experience more joy than non-Christians? Pastor John gives four responses.
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Why are Christians most to be pitied if there’s no resurrection? Don’t we still experience more joy than non-Christians? Pastor John gives four responses.
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How can women navigate a corrupt and confusing world? Pastor John offers biblical strategies for confidence, strength, and freedom.
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In a world where Christians deal with chronic pain and awful sickness, how can we understand and apply the promise that “God heals all your diseases”?
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Can we lose eternal rewards by becoming incapacitated or less fruitful as we age? Or can our sin cancel out rewards we would have received?
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Knowing God is the most extraordinary experience in the world. But how do we come to know him authentically, deeply, personally?
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Did Paul know about self-harm and poor body image? If he did, how could he still say that “no one ever hated his own flesh”?
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Persecution, troubles, heaviness of heart — are these different forms of God’s discipline? Pastor John traces God’s good purposes in different kinds of pain.
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We know the new heavens and new earth will be a place of perfect, endless joy. But will we really never get bored, even after millions of years?
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If God has already promised not to withhold anything good from us, then does asking him for more imply that yesterday’s good wasn’t good enough?
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If knowledge puffs up, will formal Bible education make us proud? Pastor John points out pride’s craftiness and offers five weapons of humility.
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