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A Living Hope
Easter brings us a living hope … “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to ...
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He saw and He sees ...
He sees ... And when He drew near and He saw the city, He wept over it (English Standard Bible, Luke 19:41).
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More than just a saving act!
“Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since...
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The Living Hope
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope th...
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Alive for Today
All persons throughout the earth are alive, if they have life in them. The life in each person alive must repeatedly breathe in oxygen for t...
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The Tender Savior
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench; He will bring forth justice for truth.
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The Ultimate Love of Christ
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us...
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Life from Death
From Death to Life The miracle of something becoming alive through death is one of the most remarkable facts in the birthing, sustaining, an...
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Our Savior and Lord
In a familiar garden, he cried out, desperately, for a release from the brutal path before him, yet he humbly forfeited his submissive will ...
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Recounting of the Failure of All
As we come mid-week into the events of the Holy Week of Easter, we find a cluster of failings on the part of groups and individuals. Those e...
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Giving Your All to the One Who Gave His All for You
Christ gave all ... For all that He was, He revealed in the flesh. All that He revealed in the flesh, He redeemed in His death. He victorio...
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Letting the Author finish His work …
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, an...
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Our Savior comes in the empty and seemingly void of promise!
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9, NIV) Instead of promises...
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Letting the Risen Christ Live in Us
Most Christians can talk about Christ being a real person who lived on this earth many years ago. Most Christians speak of Christ being aliv...
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Suffering that Heals
Then He said unto them, “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not Christ to have suffered these th...
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On the Days After Easter
Letting the Risen Christ Live in Us Most Christians can talk about Christ being a real person who lived on this earth many years ago. Most C...
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There are no words!
There is a word for the inability to express, contain or bring forth adequately in words something too great or extreme to be expressed or d...
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The Empty Manger
The Manger Gertrude Käsebier 1852 – 1934 National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain “Who, being in very nature God, did not con...
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He came for everyone!
“You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he coul...
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A faithful servant of God …
“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?...
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After all Christ did, there are still no words for what He does …
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that ...
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There are no words ...
Albrecht Dürer, The Crucifixion, National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain "He himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so t...
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From the seed ...
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts a...