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Exhortations, meditations, and encouragement from and for Cities Church
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- conversation
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- corporate worship
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- counsel
- Counsel
- count the cost
- courage
- Courage
- covenant
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- covid
- creation
- Creation
- cross
- Cross
- crowd
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- Crucifixion
- Cruciform
- CS Lewis
- culture
- Culture
- current
- darkness
- Darkness
- David
- Day of the Lord
- deacons
- death
- Death
- decisions
- dedication
- Deeper
- Delight
- Deliverance
- dependence
- device
- Devil
- devotion
- Devotion
- devotions
- difficult
- Disagreement
- Disappointment
- discernment
- disciple
- discipleship
- Discipleship
- discipline
- distraction
- Distraction
- Division
- doctrine
- doubt
- dwelling
- Easter
- Ecclesiastes
- eldership
- emmaus road
- emotions
- encouragement
- Encouragement
- Endeavors
- endurance
- enthusiasm
- Envy
- Epiphany
- Essentials
- eternity
- Eternity
- evangelism
- Evangelism
- Eve
- Everlasting Father
- evil
- Exhort
- exhortation
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- expectation
- faith
- Faith
- faith and work
- faithful
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- false humilty
- family
- Family
- Family Worship
- fast
- fasting
- Father
- Father's Day
- fear
- Fear
- fear of God
- fear of man
- fellowship
- Fellowship
- Flood
- Fools
- foreknowledge
- forgiven
- forgiveness
- Forgiveness
- Foster Care
- framing
- Freedom
- Freedom in Christ
- Friendliness
- friendship
- Friendship
- fruit of spirit
- frustration
- future
- Future
- galatians
- gender
- generosity
- Generosity
- Genesis
- gift
- giving
- Giving
- glo
- global missions
- Global Missions
- glory
- Glory
- Glory of God
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- God
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- God's story
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- godliness
- Godward
- goodness
- gospe
- gospel
- Gospel
- Gospel of John
- grace
- Grace
- gratitude
- Great Commission
- greeting
- Greeting
- grief
- growth
- guidance
- Guidance
- guilt
- Habit
- habits
- Habits
- habits of grace
- Halloween
- happiness
- Happiness
- Hard Work
- Healing
- heart
- Heart
- hearts
- heaven
- Heaven
- heaviness
- Hebrews
- hell
- Hell
- help
- helpless
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- hevel
- history
- holiness
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- Holy Week
- home
- homosexuality
- honesty
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- Horizon City Church
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- Human Nature
- humble
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- Humility
- hurry
- hurting
- husbands
- Husbands
- Ice Cream
- identity
- idolatry
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- image of God
- imagination
- Immanuel
- impatience
- Impatience
- imperturbabillity
- Incarnation
- influence
- Influence
- information
- injustice
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- intercession
- Isaiah 9:6
- Isaiah 46
- James
- Jericho Road
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- Joe Rigney
- John the Baptist
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- land
- lawsuit
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- life
- Life
- Life Group
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- longing
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- Lostness
- love
- Love
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- loving others
- Loving Others
- Luke 8
- Luther
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- manhood
- marketplace
- marriage
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- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- media
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- membership
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- mercies
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- Minnesota
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- modern age
- money
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- Mother's Day
- motherhood
- Motherhood
- motivation
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- mundane
- music
- Music
- National Night Out
- nations
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- neighboring
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- New Creation
- New Year
- New Year's Day
- news
- Noah
- not yet
- obedience
- obstacles
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- opposition
- orientation
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- orphans
- Overflow Seating
- overwhelmed
- Packer
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- Palm Sunday
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- Parenting
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- Passion
- pastoral ministry
- patience
- Paul
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- people pleasing
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- Philippians
- phone
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- pleasure
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- politics
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- Power
- praise
- prayer
- Prayer
- praying
- Preachers
- preaching
- Preaching
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- pride
- priest
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- promises
- Promises
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- Prosperity
- Proverbs
- Proverbs 19
- providence
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- Psalm 103
- Psalms
- purpose
- Purpose
- questions
- Questions
- quiet
- Quiet
- quietness & trust
- race
- Race
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- racism
- Racism
- reaction
- reading
- reality
- Reality
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- rebellion
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- reminders
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- Renewal
- Renovation of the Heart
- repentance
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- Rest
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- Resurrection
- return of Jesus
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- Revelation
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- righteous anger
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- Rooted
- Roots
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- Self-righteousness
- self-worth
- sermons
- servanthood
- Servants
- Serve
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- Serving
- sexuality
- shame
- Shame
- sheep
- Sheep
- shepherd
- Shepherd
- Shepherds
- sick
- sign
- silence
- sin
- Sin
- Sing
- singing
- sinners
- skepticism
- Smile of God
- Social Media
- society
- Solas
- solitude
- Son of God
- sorrow
- Soul
- sowing
- speaking
- special
- spiritual disciplines
- Spiritual Growth
- spirituality
- sports
- Sproul
- staff
- Star
- story
- strategy
- strength
- Stress
- Struggle
- Study
- substitution
- suffering
- Suffering
- Summer 2024
- Summit
- Sunday
- Sunrise
- supportive
- supremacy of christ
- Sweet as Honey
- symbol
- Symbols
- Sympathy
- teaching
- technology
- Technology
- temptation
- testing
- thankfulness
- Thankfulness
- thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving
- The Cities Institute
- The glory of God
- The sovereignty of God
- The Watchful Man
- the world
- theology
- Theology
- thief
- Things of Earth
- time
- Time
- Tired
- Tithe
- Torrance
- Total Depravity
- transformation
- Treasure
- trial
- Trial
- trials
- Trials
- trinity
- Triumph
- trust
- Trust
- truth
- Truth
- TV
- Twin Cities
- Tyndale
- unbelief
- Unbelief
- Unbelievers
- understanding
- Unfailing Love
- union with Christ
- unity
- Unity
- unreached peoples
- update
- v
- Value
- Values
- victory
- vision
- Vision
- vocation
- Voddie Baucham
- waiting
- Waiting
- wake
- War
- Warmth
- We Are Cities Church
- weak
- weakness
- wealth
- weary
- welcome
- Welcome
- Wicked
- widows
- Winter
- wisdom
- Wisdom
- Wise Men
- witness
- Witness
- Wives
- women
- Women
- word
- word of God
- words
- work
- Work
- working
- works
- worldliness
- Worldliness
- worship
- Worship
- Worshippers
- zeal
- Alen Andrews
- Andrea Hoglund
- Brett Toney
- Caitlin Boon
- Cities Church
- Clint Manley
- Dan Nichols
- Daniel Helstrom
- David Easterwood
- David Mathis
- David Wierzba
- Emily Thiel
- Erica Foster
- Erin Horn
- Jenny Rigney
- Joe Rigney
- Joel Button
- Jon Hoglund
- Jonathan Parnell
- Jordan Hecox
- Josh Jacobs
- Joshua Foster Sr
- Joshua Whetstine
- Josiah Bennett
- Kate Etter
- Kenneth Ortiz
- Kevin & Brook Kleiman
- Kevin Kleiman
- Kyle McIver
- Larry Martini
- Linda Linder
- Lindsey Dare
- Marshall Segal
- Matt Clausen
- Max Kozak
- Melissa Parnell
- Michael Thiel
- Mike Polley
- Mike Schumann
- Nick Aufenkamp
- Ryan Griffith
- Sahr Brima
- Sam Choi
- Sarah Brima
- Todd Fruehauf
- Tom Keefe
- Tyler Morris
- Zach Krych
- Zach Lang
Exhortation
Joe Rigney
Exhortation
Joe Rigney
Guilt, Accusation, and Outrage
Guilt is incredibly powerful, and it can work itself out in funny ways.