by Noah Filipiak

Connecting the reality of the gospel with the grit of life.

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Eye Opening Conversations About the Israel-Palestine Conflict

I had been intentionally ignoring the headlines about the Israel-Palestine war. It felt like my brain couldn’t soak in another catastrophe that I could do so little about.

But I couldn’t avoid noticing the polarizing sentiments of support around the conflict, seeing Israel flags and Palestine flags pop up on my Facebook friends’ profile pictures. As a pastor, hearing side conversations here and there of Christians discussing the war. I’d get targeted ads online telling me Christians need to support Israel. And I’d see more and more justice rallies popping up, most from my left-leaning and/or non-Christian friends, about supporting Palestine.

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A humble, biblical look at health & wealth theology (the prosperity gospel)

I’ve ripped on health & wealth theology (also called the prosperity gospel) for a long time. What I’d like to do here is slow down and examine the intent behind health & wealth theology, what parts are true biblically, and what parts come from reading the Bible incorrectly. When the New Testament gives verse after […]

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Let’s Start a Religion

INSTRUCTIONS: Make up an imaginary person.  This person could be truly imagined, like the Tooth Fairy, or you can pick someone who has died and make up imaginary things about their life, like a tall tale. Now, you need to write down these imaginary stories.  You write down that this imaginary person rose from the […]

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Could 6 different people coming back to life from the dead in the New Testament be fabricated?

Easter Sunday is coming, which has a lot of people thinking about resurrection from the dead.  Two Sundays ago, I preached on how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead (and smelly) for 4 days (John 11).  This was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the religious leaders to […]

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Why all religions aren’t the same, and why it’s so good they aren’t!

There are two groups who think all religions are the same: the informed and the uninformed. The informed have done a general study of the main religions and have concluded that they share the same central tenants or that God is too big to put in a box so he/she/it must be larger than any […]

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