Adam Ellis

The Overflow How Gratitude Becomes Action, Formation, and Shared Grace

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Reframed How Gratitude Changes Everything You See

"...But the longer I follow Jesus, the more I see [gratitude] is not a response to circumstance at all. Gratitude is a practice. It’s a spiritually formative discipline that reshapes how we notice, not just how we feel..."
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Convicted It's time to get off your...donkey.

We’ve traded conviction for influence and called it ministry. We’ve learned to bless power, excuse greed, and baptize partisanship — all while pretending it’s faithfulness. Balaam tried that too. It didn’t end well.
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Bearing Witness How the Church Lost Its Voice, and How We Can Get It Back

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The Good Book(s): Learning to take the Bible seriously Let’s talk about the Bible, what it really is and how to read and interpret it. That sounds simple, but it isn’t. Some parts are beautifully clear. Others are tough, strange, and messy. When we treat ...

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Can I Get a Witness? Christian Ethics as Public Testimony: What does it look like to bear witness when faithfulness costs everything? Sometimes it looks like standing firm when the world around you bends.

What does it look like to bear witness when faithfulness costs everything? Sometimes it looks like standing firm when the world around you bends...

Speaking the Truth in Love We live in a world that avoids hard truth. We cushion it, disguise it, or bury it under politeness. Yet love without truth is not love at all. It is sentimentality wearing compassion’s clothes. Love t...

Speaking the Truth in Love
We live in a world that avoids hard truth. We cushion it, disguise it, or bury it under politeness. Yet love without truth is not love at all. It is sentimentality wearing compassion’s clothes. Love tells the truth, not to condemn, but to heal...
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Living In Exile Kindness as Holy Rebellion

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Not For Sale The Uncompromising Ethics of Jesus

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Walk The Line Christian Ethics & The Way of Uncompromised Faith

"...Christian ethics insists that how we pursue even the highest goals cannot be separated from the way of Jesus. To attempt to accomplish God’s goals by ungodly means is to corrupt those goals. Put more bluntly: you cannot build the Kingdom of God with the devil’s tools..."

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Alabama veteran, pastor react to Trump immigration directives President Donald Trump has signed multiple executive orders dealing with immigration.

I’m incredibly proud of this story. Please bear in mind, my page is not a place for negativity, and though you may disagree with things mentioned in the article, everything that is not a quote is direct fact.

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If you are interested, here's video of the 2nd lesson in my sermon series called, "Lift EVERY Voice: What Paul Really Said About Women." In this lesson I take a close look at what Paul says about teaching and authority, with a focus on literary and historical context.
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Here's a sermon I preached recently called "Lift EVERY Voice: What Paul Really Said About Women," in which I discuss one of the two main passages that are often used as prooftexts for women keeping silent (at least in terms of public roles) in church.

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Here’s a sermon I preached a couple of weeks ago called “The Good Book(s): Taking The Bible Seriously. It’s about what the Bible actually is and how to interpret it. www.youtube.com/live/c58rzYW...