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Holding the Things of This World Lightly

But true servants of God, filled with his Spirit, will seek to live lives which are consistent with the gospel they proclaim. It was

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Churches and Students

Look around and notice the students in your congregation and consider how you might encourage them. It doesn’t take much: a dinner once a

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Balancing Right and Left: Cardinal Martini (1927-2012) and the Dynamics of Present-day Catholicism

In the Roman Catholic system, the Pope is supposed to fight against “anti-popes”, but is likely to encourage “ante-popes” that would stretch the Roman

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The (Moral) Freedom to Succeed

Without certain moral and cultural presuppositions about the nature of individuals and their communities, about liberty and sin, about work and savings, about self-restraint

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The Twin Challenges of Gospel Renewal

Let us expend some holy energy in getting to know those whom we hope to win for the kingdom. Because while technology and cultural

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Marriage As Theological Theater

Every marriage, everywhere in the world, is a picture of Christ and the church. But because of sin and rebellion, many of these pictures

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God Is Near, Mary Is Very Near: Benedict XVI on the Dogma of Mary’s Assumption

Usually, Mariological language is crafted is such a way as to never downplay the person and the work of Christ. This comparison, however, demonstrates

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God’s Waiting Room

Sitting in God’s waiting room can be the most difficult place. Your mind and heart race in a thousand different directions. But just because

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Lifting Jesus High

Driving home from the Melrose Park, I wondered what it would look like for evangelicals to affirm and celebrate gospel fruit in instances such

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Joy Set Free

Chained to a Roman soldier, awaiting his appearance before Caesar, Paul knew that his life might soon be “poured out like a drink offering”

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Girding Your Loins for the Pulpit

The timid minister is as bad as the timid surgeon. Courage is good everywhere, but it is necessary here. If you are afraid of

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Back from the Dead

We despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on

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Legal Fiction in Today’s Catholicism

Notice what is happening here. According to Catholic teaching, there are two categories: lay and ordained. Sacramental grace is understood to sanctify the latter

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Bad Kids (and Adults)

Here is the point: our kids need to know that they are not okay. The human race is fundamentally messed up. The fallen nature

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So Your Spouse is Catholic?

Theological perspective is never shaped in a vacuum. We live in a particular context where uninvited forces impose themselves, causing us to ask certain

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Evangelical Ecclesiology: Through the Pope’s Eyes

The Pope has repeatedly argued that Evangelicalism is too doctrinally liquid and ecclesiastically unstable to be taken as a serious theological counterpart. However, what

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Chris Castaldo

Chris Castaldo is the Lead Pastor at New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois, and is a fellow at the Center for Pastor Theologians. Whether it’s through his writing, speaking, or his bi-weekly Vlog, "A Brief Word from Pastor Chris," he desires to see the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed and lives transformed for the glory of God.

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