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  Forgiveness’s Dirty Little Secret

  Posted on December 19, 2016 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog, Finding Forgiveness.

  Have you ever been camping? Living outdoors and trudging in the woods for days. You arrive home exhilarated but exhausted. What’s one of the first things you want to do? Shower. A nice, long, hot shower. You can feel the sweat and grime running down your body and into the drain. It makes you feel […]

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• Coming Out

  Posted on June 22, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Mourning has broken. Hearts are heavy with the news that the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has broken covenant with the wife of his youth.  Assuredly, there are those from the spectator seats of the world cheering and jeering. But I suspect there are also those within the larger church who are […]

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• Sanctification and Union with Christ

  Posted on June 13, 2015 by sdgale in Uncategorized.

    The indicative of our sanctification is established through union with Christ. The imperative of our sanctification is enabled through union with Christ, and is exercised through abiding. If that statement is true, and I believe that it is, then it is essential that leaders of Christ’s church teach those entrusted to their care about […]

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• Treating Toxicity

  Posted on May 11, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    There’s a lot of talk about toxicity nowadays. Toxic people. Toxic relationships. Even toxic churches. When people speak of toxicity they have in mind something poisonous that creates an atmosphere unconducive to sustaining life. Toxic people can infect others with their critical spirit and negative outlook. Their negativity sucks the life out of others […]

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• In the Name of Grace

  Posted on March 23, 2015 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    It was at a CCEF conference on “Sex Matters” that I heard a speaker give one of the most perceptive approaches to celibacy in singleness that I had heard to date. She said two things that struck me. One, she said we often look at singleness as a problem to be solved rather than […]

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  The Sign of the Rainbow

  Posted on November 4, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    “And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make   between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Genesis 9:12–13) […]

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• The Question of Holiness

  Posted on June 10, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Among the articles on my USA Today iPad app, one took me aback.  It posed the question, “Can a Christian watch ‘Game of Thrones’?” Not having read the books or seen the show, I’m not in a position to answer the question one way or the other.  But what struck me was that the […]

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• Sin, Salvation and the Holy Spirit

  Posted on October 15, 2012 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    A pastor I knew insisted he had found the only error in the Bible.  Of course, my antennae went up because I believe the Bible to be without error.  It is the Word of God.  What was the mistake he had discovered?  He found it buried in Paul’s first letter to Timothy. “Here is […]

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• Orthopractic Adjustment

  Posted on August 17, 2012 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    A sign in a chiropractor’s office might read: “Glad to see your back.”  Spinal adjustment is the chiropractor’s bread and butter. God speaks to us about the back.  He wants us properly aligned in two ways, orthodoxy and orthopraxis.  Orthodoxy is right doctrine; orthopraxis right practice. Orthopraxis speaks to our lives under the lordship […]

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