Author: Bryan Stearns
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Father, You Have Made This Day
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During my prayer and devotion time on Dec 20th, 2024, a short rhyme came to mind as a tool to help me focus my mindset for the day: May we love Your holy nameMore than life and more than pain.May my love […]
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Psalm 16 – Hymn
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A text and musical arrangement of Psalm 16. Click here to download the sheet music as a pdf. Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.You, only, O LORD, are my good and my light.As for all Your saints on […]
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From Apologetics to Holiness
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Thought of the day: I think the Church has now passed the time for focusing on apologetics in public discourse. Why do I say that? Imagine two men: First is a man who actively practices all sorts of ungodliness: voodoo, astrology, drunkenness, […]
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Preaching Christ Crucified
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Thought of the day: The Scripture passages, “we preach Christ crucified,” (1 Cor. 1:23) and “I desire to know nothing among you except Christ and Him crucified,” (1 Cor. 2:2) are often taken out of context. In particular, I will sometimes hear […]
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Law & Gospel of Criticism
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Thought of the day: Law and Gospel describe how we give and handle criticism. There are two ways to criticize another person. The first is to tear down, and the second is to build up. There are likewise two ways to perceive […]
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Citizens of Heaven
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Thought of the day: What do we envision that our life together in the resurrection to be like? No more pain, no more sorrow, no more hurting each other by our words or deeds, no more death. Why will these things be? […]
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Self-Discipline for Distinctions
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Thought of the day: Why is self-control a fruit of the Spirit (as Paul says in Galatians 5:22-24)? And why, more broadly, do we practice self-discipline? (1 Corinthians 9:24-27) God’s creative work is a work of creating distinctions (separating the light from […]
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5 Points of Church Bodily Function
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I desire here to simply point to God’s Word with respect to 5 areas that of how the Church is called to operate together. Think about them seriously. We must take God’s Word seriously, that the Word of God may not be […]
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God’s Kingdom is Not About You
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Thought of the day: God’s kingdom is not about you. Are we sons of God, or are we servants/slaves of God? Yes. We are both. I think that as Christians today we especially like to identify with the former. We of course […]
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Whom Do You Follow?
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Thought of the day: Jesus said, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not […]