Gary Thomas
Gary Thomas | Closer to Christ, Closer to Others
What if Everything You Thought You Knew About Sin Is Wrong? Reading the Christian classics reminds me that the sins I care about and focus on the most may be the sins God cares about the least. If …
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When I left Houston, a church member told me that of the hundreds of sermons she had heard me preach there, the one that impacted her most was “Created to Create.” Made in the image of God, who begins …
“Sticky sin” describes moral issues that tend to stick around. We fall, and then we fall again. Or we finally get victory, and then collapse into pride because of our victory. Or we use one sin …
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Unlearning the Need for Comfort, Part 2 This is week two of the chapter on unlearning the need for comfort and learning the need for afflictions. You should read the first part before reading this …
This chapter from, The Art of Unlearning, is on something that has been both brutal and beautiful in my life: unlearning the demand to always be comfortable, and learning the absolute necessity of …
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Unlearning Isolation, Part 3 We live in a world that is hostile to the love and presence of God. Sin seeks to actively lure us away from him, but even when we don’t give way to sin, daily life …
