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Get Off the Judgment Seat
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11-12)
Jun 26 • Matthew Allen
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The Hardest Math in the Bible
Jun 4 • Matthew Allen
What God Didn’t Do When His Prophet Wanted to Die
May 27 • Matthew Allen
The Biblical Call to Manhood
Mar 11, 2025 • Matthew Allen
Why Younger Christians Consider Leaving
Nov 19, 2025 • Matthew Allen

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From the Root to the Weapon
Why you can't fix your words by working on your words
Jun 25 • Matthew Allen
The Passions Have Names
When the appetite grows up and gets dressed for church...
Jun 24 • Matthew Allen
Where Wars and Fights Come From
How our unchecked desires become the sources of a quarrel...
Jun 23 • Matthew Allen
37:16
The Truth That Reaches the Heart
Allowing John 17:17 to say exactly what it says...
Jun 22 • Matthew Allen
Why a Changed Heart Beats a Longer List of Rules
Inside Out: What Only the Spirit Can Do — Part 3
Jun 16 • Matthew Allen
38:07
When Truth Has a Face
What is truth? How do we answer? Do we answer with a list? A set of doctrines? Or, with a Person?
Jun 15 • Matthew Allen
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From Fear to Faith
From Fear to Faith
This is the personal blog and online information portal for Matthew Allen, pulpit minister for Cornerstone Church of Christ in Centerville, Ohio. I want to encourage you and help you embrace your freedom in Christ.

Church Life

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Get Off the Judgment Seat
There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11-12)
Jun 26 • Matthew Allen
From the Root to the Weapon
Why you can't fix your words by working on your words
Jun 25 • Matthew Allen
The Passions Have Names
When the appetite grows up and gets dressed for church...
Jun 24 • Matthew Allen
Where Wars and Fights Come From
How our unchecked desires become the sources of a quarrel...
Jun 23 • Matthew Allen

Discipleship and Spiritual Growth

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Why a Changed Heart Beats a Longer List of Rules
Inside Out: What Only the Spirit Can Do — Part 3
Jun 16 • Matthew Allen
From the Inside Out
How the Spirit does from within what the law could only demand from without.
Jun 12 • Matthew Allen
What the Law Was Never Able to Do
Inside Out: What Only the Spirit Can Do — Part 1
Jun 11 • Matthew Allen
Led, Not Driven
What Galatians 5 teaches about the Spirit, the flesh, and the freedom law could never give...
Jun 9 • Matthew Allen

Doctrine

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Lay the Toolbox Down
The grace that supplies what willpower never could...
Jun 3 • Matthew Allen
The Night God Said Both Things at Once
The generation was pardoned. And they never saw the land.
Apr 23 • Matthew Allen
They Were Trying to Curse You
And You Didn't Even Know It
Apr 15 • Matthew Allen
Lifted Up
A Pharisee, a Wilderness Story, and the Cross
Apr 10 • Matthew Allen

Encouragement & Hope

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What Your Anxiety Forgets
Jesus on the worry that runs our lives — and the Father who won’t let it have the last word
Jun 10 • Matthew Allen
Read Your Bible, Pray -- and Get Help
Why seeking care for a wounded mind is not a failure of faith
May 28 • Matthew Allen
What God Didn’t Do When His Prophet Wanted to Die
What 1 Kings 19 quietly refuses to do — and what it tells you about the God who handles broken people.
May 27 • Matthew Allen
Carried
Weary Christian, Look Up
May 6 • Matthew Allen

Evangelism & Outreach

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Sharing Your Soul
The gospel advances not through comfort, but through conviction...
Nov 7, 2025 • Matthew Allen
Marks of a Growing Church
Lessons from the church in Antioch
Sep 23, 2025 • Matthew Allen
The Mission Field at Your Doorstep
What We Can Learn from Jesus Visiting Peter's House
Mar 26, 2025 • Matthew Allen
The Power of Leaven
Coping with the Reality of Growth and Loss within the Churches of Christ
Mar 25, 2025 • Matthew Allen

Family and Relationships

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The War You Can't See
James traces every conflict back to one source. It isn't the thing you think it is.
Jun 5 • Matthew Allen
Correct and Unbearable, or Pleasant and Useless
One of these failure modes has your name on it.
Apr 29 • Matthew Allen
Fighting Back Against Verbal Abuse
Something many people quietly live with but rarely bring up on their own...
Feb 4 • Matthew Allen
Yelding is Not Excusing Sin
Scripture never asks God’s people to protect abusive relationships
Feb 3 • Matthew Allen
The Quiet Poison of Envy
Opening the door to bitterness, division, and resentment
Dec 1, 2025 • Matthew Allen
The Quiet Sin That Tears Us Apart
Sin does not travel alone, and gossip often walks beside strife and jealousy.
Nov 17, 2025 • Matthew Allen
Choosing Peace Over Bitterness
Learning to follow Christ's way of peace
Sep 29, 2025 • Matthew Allen
A Tribute to Our Faithful Mothers
Happy Mothers Day to All!
May 10, 2025 • Matthew Allen

Modern Christian Life

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The Childish Things Aren't Just Below Us -- They're Behind Us
Growing up isn't just climbing a ladder. It's stepping out of an age.
May 22 • Matthew Allen
Eyes on the Wrong Thing
The direction makes all the difference in the world.
May 20 • Matthew Allen
Grown Up Thinking
We’re walking through phroneō in Philippians — the word translated “think” that Paul uses ten times in this short letter.
May 19 • Matthew Allen
The Mind of Christ
The Way Up Is Down
May 14 • Matthew Allen

Publishing Updates

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New Booklet Going to Print
Perfect for those who would like to know more about the churches of Christ
Jun 27, 2025 • Matthew Allen
Transform Your Faith with What God Requires: Learning to Do Life His Way (Part 1)
Finding a clear path to spiritual growth...
Mar 28, 2025 • Matthew Allen
How to Walk in Unity
Living out our identity in Christ
Feb 19, 2025 • Matthew Allen
New Workbook Out
Marks of a True Christian: A Study of Romans 12
Jun 8, 2024 • Matthew Allen

Sermons

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37:16
The Truth That Reaches the Heart
Allowing John 17:17 to say exactly what it says...
Jun 22 • Matthew Allen
38:07
When Truth Has a Face
What is truth? How do we answer? Do we answer with a list? A set of doctrines? Or, with a Person?
Jun 15 • Matthew Allen
40:16
A Church That Looks Like Jesus
Colossians 1:28-29
Jun 8 • Matthew Allen
34:39
Childish Things
1 Corinthians 13:10-11
Jun 8 • Matthew Allen
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