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Discipleship & Obedience You Did No Harm. Did You Do Good? We can let someone suffer and still believe we did nothing wrong. From the Good Samaritan to Eli’s silence, Scripture shows that the good we knowingly… Discipleship & Obedience The Prayer That Does Not Avail Much We can pray earnestly and still not receive what we ask. Scripture shows why: pleading cannot replace repentance, forgiveness does not cancel every consequence, and prayer… Discipleship & Obedience Our Need Gives Us Reason to Ask, Not Authority to Decide Our need is a real reason to pray, but it is not a reason for God to obey. Even the sinless Son prayed within submission to… Discipleship & Obedience The Sin of What We Leave Undone We usually think of sin as something we actively do. But Jesus also confronts what we fail to do. Matthew 25:45 exposes a quieter form of… Discipleship & Obedience Obedience Includes the Good You Refuse to Do Disobedience is not always an obvious act of rebellion. Sometimes it appears as inaction: the apology never given, the mercy withheld, the truth never spoken, the… Sin, Temptation & Spiritual Warfare Know Thy Enemy The Christian life includes a real spiritual adversary whose methods are often more subtle than obvious. Scripture calls us to be sober, watchful, and discerning because… Sin, Temptation & Spiritual Warfare Temptation Begins by Questioning God’s Goodness Temptation rarely begins by making evil look evil. It begins by causing us to question whether God is truly good, whether His word can be trusted,…