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The exuberant omnipotence of God: reasserting God's rightful place in all of life -- Lesson from a lost Mastercard: "cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you" -- God is love, God is God: balancing complexity and simplicity in the bible -- The great work of God: rain: a thanksgiving meditation on Job 5:8-10 -- "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!": pondering the illusions created by a lazy heart -- Early morning at the manse: how a father fights for his faith and his family -- Ten lessons I learned from my father: honoring my father in his eightieth year -- Lessons on retirement from Charles Simeon and Raymond Lull: 'He who loves not, live not; he who lives by the life cannot die." -- Can Christians be held hostage by the sins of the beloved?: when is mercy merry and when does it mourn? -- When 'want to' and "ought to" don't match: living between hypocrisy and license -- The only ultimate love: do people go to the grand canyon to enhance their self-esteem? -- "No evil will befall you." really?: beware of Satan's use of psalms -- Will your family dig its own grave?: meditation on martyrdom and families -- Righteous job and the rock star: pondering power and popular influences on youth -- Her body, her self, and her God: pondering diaries from yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- A letter to my wife saying yes to adoption: Monday, November 6, 1995, 11:12 PM -- Sky rider, eternal home, and everlasting arms -- how to pray for the soul (yours or another's) -- Beware of common sense! -- Clyde Kilby's resolutions for mental health -- The missing note of sovereign joy -- How to be filled with the holy spirit -- What is communion with God? wisdom from John Owen -- What if our dying is discipline? -- "The greatest thing in the world is to be saved" -- The agonizing problem of the assurance of salvation -- Are you a descendant of King David? -- There is no salvation outside Israel -- Justified, but not forgiven? -- Imperfection: the mark of all the perfected --Ten reasons to love the truth -- Should Christian colleges indoctrinate? -- Luther, Bunyan, Bible, and pain -- Does God really want you to be encouraged? -- They gave it their best shot in vain -- Discernment by desire -- You are about to change your job -- What is a "root of bitterness"? -- When God's will is that His will not be done -- The root of mental health: being healed by knowing God -- The simultaneous sound of laughter and weeping -- Thank God for diaries, journals, and biographies! -- We are not content just to sow -- News! news! news! -- The dangers of computer unreality -- Darwinism on my front porch -- Does God have civil rights? -- Can joy increase forever? -- Prison profanity: where does it come from ? -- How can Elsie run? -- The unashamed God -- God does not repent like a man -- Devil prayers and divine pleasures -- A word on poetry -- Prayerfully ransack the Bible -- How can eternal life be a free gift -- Jesus and the children -- Bodies, breakfast, and the marriage bed -- The pistol star and the power of God -- If you believe, you will see the glory of God -- How does the spirit produce love? -- Can the regenerate be based from the book of life? -- How dangerous is our faith? -- Facts, seen and unseen -- Please, feed me more! -- Cherishing truth for the sake of love -- Augustine on what it means to love God -- "Lord of the dead" -- How does one sin make you guilty of the whole law? -- One danger of denying God's foreknowledge of human choices -- The grace of being born to you -- How dispensable is gender? -- Making a difference by fire -- When to separate and when not to --Some questions to ask when considering a job -- Sweet sovereignty and the assurance of salvation -- More, more, more --On lending God -- "The terror that is named the flight of time'' -- Foundations for thinking about race and interracial marriage -- Controversy: essential and deadly -- ''Finally, brethren, pray for us'' -- Being loved and being hated -- Embracing a God-centered God with God-centered love -- Between resignation and triumphalism -- How to be strong in the Lord -- ''For your sake he became poor" -- From shadow to substance for the sake of Christ -- The sovereignty of God: a precious and practical doctrine -- How is the wrath of God being revealed now? -- The wrath of God on believers and unbelievers now -- What does the slaughter of the Amorites mean? -- A life well-lived is like writing a good poem -- Martin Luther's rules for how to become a theologian -- Is the holy spirit phase three of God's word? -- Who governs thought and tongue? -- Answers to prayer in the midst of non-answers -- Who was Jesus' grandfather? -- "They love all men" -- Pluralism: We have been here before -- "God has allotted to teach a measure of faith" -- Shall we goof off that grace may abound? -- Another paradox of prayer: "vain repetitions" versus "continual coming" -- Does unconditionality conceal the real remedy? -- Where does Christian living come from? -- Can you be worthy of God? -- If I have found favor, let me, O God, find favor -- Are Christians fully satisfied? -- Going beyond the limits of unlimited atonement -- When adulteresses are men -- A joyful meeting with Joseph Tson -- When Jesus will not answer a question -- In quest of rest -- Will we love Christ at the end of the year? -- "Take heed how you hear! -- "Why do you call me good? God alone is good" -- You almost can't teach an old dog new tricks -- Seneca, C.S. Lewis, and a sale --Jesus delivers us from the wrath to come -- All the angels are coming with him --