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Your transformation is possible not because you are empowered to do better but because you have died with Jesus. Not only was the penalty of your sin broken once and for all. So was the power of your sin and its control over your life. The enemy is now a defeated foe,...

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I told you about one of my first jujitsu rolls when I unknowingly challenged a higher belt who punished my face for disrespecting him. Well, here’s the rest of the story: After that first fight, I started winning. And winning. And winning. I rolled against a champion...

It was the Friday night before the Australia Day (which is Australia’s equivalent to the USA’s July 4th) weekend holiday. My wife, Steph, and I were inside an old-school bar where the walls, floor, and ceiling were painted black—because, quite simply, it’s easier to...

Not only did Jesus come as the Hedge-Breaker, but he told his followers that they were to devote their lives to his project. In his most famous prayer he said we are to pray, “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. your kingdom come, your will be done on earth...

Once, when discussing the nature of salvation with a skeptical intellectual named Nicodemus, Jesus made a claim the skeptic thought was ridiculous—that people need to be “born again” before they can enter the kingdom of God. Nicodemus challenged, “Why would that be...

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The seventh reason I believe that the Bible is the very Word of God is transmission. The Bible’s purity and preservation throughout the centuries is nothing short of miraculous. Do you remember the kids’ game telephone? You get nine or ten children together and the...

Nathan Campbell, an Australian pastor and blogger, came up with the phrase, “Evangelism in a skeptical world is basically a team game.”12 We need to do evangelism together, as a team, playing off the same playbook. Nathan showed me that in 1 Thessalonians 1:4–10,...

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Understanding what it means to identify with Jesus’ death is so critical for our transformation process that Paul explained exactly what Jesus was doing between the time He died on the cross and was resurrected from the grave. He uses some ancient warfare language no...

People often ask me, “Why can’t we just evangelize the same way Billy Graham did?” What’s wrong with a simple twenty-minute Bible talk? The hidden assumption here is that if it worked for Billy, it should work for us. Perhaps there’s also the feeling that we’re...

Do you believe in divine judgment? By which I mean, do you believe in a God who acts as our Judge? Many, it seems, do not. Speak to them of God as a Father, a friend, a helper, one who loves us despite all our weakness and folly and sin, and their faces light up; you...

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An American friend once dismissed this whole approach to evangelism as “friendship evangelism.” That’s when I realized I was a naive Australian who had unknowingly stumbled into an American minefield—one that distinguishes “friendship” evangelism from “proclamation”...

Previously, I asked you, What do you most need to do to have what you want most? Now I want to flip the question to this: What do you most need to stop doing to have what you want most? We are going to learn how to start and stop habits. To begin, let’s identify the...

I’ve known many people who talk a lot about change but can’t quite pull the trigger to make it happen—alcoholics who swear they are going to quit drinking right after the next drink, or would-be exercisers promising to start back at the gym next week, next month, or...

When I arrived at the boarding gate, only two other people were waiting to board the late-night flight from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to Charlotte, North Carolina. One was a gentleman I estimated to be two hundred years old. The other was a mysterious, brooding young...