AUTHOR
Campbell Markham
How Do People Try to Cover Up Their Sins with Fig Leaves Like Adam and Eve Did?
Adam and Eve thought fig leaves would protect them from God’s righteous judgment of their disobedience. How do we try to cover up our sin with our own fig leaves to justify ourselves before God?
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Why Do Christians Pray, “And Lead Us Not into Temptation, But Deliver Us from Evil”?
“Has God really commanded that?” We are constantly and fiercely tempted to break God’s commands in the same way that Adam and Eve were. We are like bunnies in the jaws of the lion, in desperate need of God’s deliverance.
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You Need to Rest—the Seventh Day of Creation
The Sabbath was supposed to be a day of rest, but the Pharisees loaded it with stupid laws and turned the Sabbath into a day of fear and misery. How did Jesus recover the Sabbath, and what does it mean for us today?
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Why Do Christians Pray, “Forgive Us Our Debts”?
The sinful woman in Luke 7:37-50 crumpled herself before the Lord, against whom she had ultimately rebelled. We see her love for Jesus welling up from her deepest soul. Why do Christians pray, “Forgive us our debts?”
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3 Ways God Saves You from Drowning—the Second Day of Creation
God’s church is always in danger of drowning—suffocating in the waters of outward persecution and inward materialism and temptation. We need not fear, though, because our Lord will rescue us and bring us through.
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Unbelieving the Resurrection
Do you have to see Jesus and touch him to believe? Why did Thomas doubt his fellow apostles’ testimony about Jesus’ resurrection?
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Is God the Background for Your Selfie?
What is the character of our Christianity? Is its primary purpose ourselves? What we get out of it? Jesus exposes, challenges, and disintegrates this selfishness with the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be thy name” (Matt. 6:9).
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A Pastor’s Surprise: Systematic Theology Classes in the Local Church
We all “do theology” all the time. Every Christian thinks about God and what the Bible teaches us, which builds itself in our minds into some kind of system. We started an “Eight-Week Theology Taster” class at my local church, and I was delighted to discover that Jesus’ sheep are hungry to hold in their minds a thoroughly biblical, well-digested, and well-ordered theology.
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The Struggle to Uphold the Biblical View of Marriage in Australia
With last week’s passage of an amendment to redefine marriage in Australia in favor of same-sex couples, the country’s pastors are now faced with the decision of whether to resign their status as authorised celebrants of the novel Marriage Act. Tasmanian pastor Campbell Markham mailed the following letter to Australia’s Attorney General on the same day the Governor General signed into law the country’s redefinition of marriage.
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