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Sam Allberry

Sam Allberry is a pastor, apologist, and speaker. He is the author of Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?

Original Sin Can Make Us Compassionate

Original Sin Can Make Us Compassionate

A better understanding of sin can make us better, more compassionate friends and neighbors. Far too often, we treat people as if they were not born in Adam.

I Trust Them with My Sins: Four Ways to Welcome Confession

I Trust Them with My Sins

Four Ways to Welcome Confession

How can we become people who invite honest confessions of sin from others? Be unshockable. Be reciprocal. Be a good listener. Be a friend.

Love Is Not Always Love: Why Feelings Must Bow Before God

Love Is Not Always Love

Why Feelings Must Bow Before God

We cannot know what love is by looking within and listening to our feelings. We can know love only by looking at God and listening to him.

Your Church Needs You This Sunday: Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship

Your Church Needs You This Sunday

Two Prayers to Prepare for Worship

There has always been the temptation to habitually miss church — and skip the precious good God has planned to give us.

The Stains That No One Sees: How Jesus Removes Our Shame

The Stains That No One Sees

How Jesus Removes Our Shame

When we come to Jesus, afraid that our uncleanness will repel him, he does not withdraw in disgust. He makes us clean.

Why God Hides His Will for You

Why God Hides His Will for You

God dignifies his children not by telling us what to do with every decision, but by training us how to make decisions well.

Four Ways to Fight Sexual Sin

Four Ways to Fight Sexual Sin

Fleeing sexual sin means doing all we can to avoid it. Any action and sacrifice is worth it.

You Need Not Worry About Next Year

You Need Not Worry About Next Year

However the last year has been for you, if you are in Christ, God could not have been more good to you than he has been.

The Most Repeated Verse in the Bible

The Most Repeated Verse in the Bible

If you go to the bottom of God’s heart, the very core of his being, you will not find wrath. You will find steadfast love and faithfulness.

A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break

A Bruised Reed He Will Not Break

Many who are strong are the last people you want to go to for compassion. But in Christ we find the strongest and the most tender.

The Idol Behind Same-Sex Desires

The Idol Behind Same-Sex Desires

The best gain for everyone who struggles with same-sex desires is a greater love for Christ, and a deeper knowledge of his grace.

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