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Coop's Column - The Radiant Preciousness of Jesus Series: Mouths to Taste,...
Mouths are for eating. No fewer than 700 times Biblical writers mention the vital role that eating plays in maintaining one’s health. Eating is important to physical health, of course—that goes...
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Coop's Column - The Radiant Preciousness of Jesus Series: Good Friday...
On some points of doctrine, honest Christians honestly disagree. On one point, however, all do agree: The cross lies at the very heart of the Christian message.
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Coop's Column - The Radiant Preciousness of Jesus Series: Easter Sunday...
“On the third day He arose again from the dead.” By these words in the Apostles Creed, Christians are declaring, forthrightly and unequivocally, a radical conviction, full of cosmic implications. He is...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Compassion
God’s Word makes a breath-taking confession about followers of Jesus: they have become resurrected with their risen Lord. Believers in Jesus have become “Eastered people,” raised from an old life of...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Kindness
Language that folks wouldn’t dream of using in face-to-face conversation has now become, sad to say, a normal part of their careless, coarsened interaction. How do you reduce the level of shrill and...
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Coop's Column - Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday is a day to celebrate, with full-throated thanksgiving and joy, Jesus' sending of his Holy Spirit. And, Pentecost Monday and the entire succession of days during Pentecost season, are...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Humility
St Paul commended it as a resurrection virtue. A humble person is within a millimeter of becoming like Christ himself, who “did not consider equality with God something to be grasped… but humbled...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Gentleness
Gentleness ought to be an obvious character quality of every person who bears the Savior’s name. Christian leaders are not exempt. Wielding power over others as they are called to do, leaders are...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Patience
Patience-filled Christian saints keep cultivating their relationship with the Spirit and keep praying continually for his help in showing makrothumia everywhere and always toward all others, no matter...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Forgiveness
Forgiving: it’s a challenging practice—perhaps no other command of Jesus is more difficult to obey. And it’s so counter-intuitive. Why give anyone a fresh start after he’s hurt you deeply? Why not...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Love
What better place to celebrate the Good News of God’s agape and to get the instruction manual for learning how to live it out toward others than in the congregation of saints on Sunday morning? There...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Gratitude
To be human is to be aware that life—one’s own life—is a sheer and undeserved gift from God. It is to revel and delight in its giftedness and to return thanks to the Giver. When the Giver hears an...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Peace
The things which most unite Christians often most divide them. Honest believers at times honestly disagree. But too often—and too quickly—they turn disagreements into unholy quarrels.
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Dwelling Together in God’s Word
To grow and mature in our faith, we must learn, as Paul advises, to let God’s Word “dwell richly” in us. Prayerfully, humbly, and communally we must steep ourselves in it. Together we must read,...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Learning God’s Word
In recent weeks we have been considering the several Christian practices that St. Paul encourages Jesus’ followers to practice daily. Taken together, these behaviors make up the Christian community’s...
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The Wardrobe of Easter: Teaching God’s Word
This week we consider the equally important task which rests upon the teachers within the Christian community. The Lord places upon them the duty to instruct faithfully and well so that others may...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: Singing Together
In the weeks since Easter, we have been noting in this column the several Christian practices which St. Paul commends as appropriate for those who have "been risen" with their Lord. In this week’s...
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Coop's Column: The Wardrobe of Easter - Centering in Jesus
Meditating on the great acts of salvation and rescue which his Savior had performed for him, and then letting the waves of the Savior’s love which prompted these acts to sweep over his mind and into...
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Coop's Column - The Wardrobe of Easter: White-Hot with Purpose
St Paul calls followers of Jesus Christ who have been resurrected with him to live far better. They must be well-ordered in their priorities and white-hot in their motivation.
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Coop's Column - A Thankful People
Because life is a sheer gift from God, one we never deserved. The appropriate response, therefore, is to do two things: to take delight in the gift, to revel in and to savor it; and then, in response...
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