Ed Welch’s words should not be confined to teenagers. People of all ages can fall into this spiritual trap, and some churches encourage them along the way. “Hello, I am a moralistic therapeutic deist.” That’s the word from a number of evangelical teens. I really liked that phrase when I first read it, though it …

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Russell Moore makes some points about how people can be orthodox in their belief, but liberal in their practice by denying the dimension of the Gospel life known as forgiveness. All of us are going to have some painfully broken relationships. But they shouldn’t be the norm for a Christian’s life. The most difficult math …

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