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Joined to Christ
Every substance, thing or person is separate from the parts which make each substance, thing or person what it is and who they are. At the ...
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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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Our Savior and Lord
Grace poured out ... in a familiar garden, He cried out, desperately, for the passing of this course before him, yet He humbly forfeited his...
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Your Savior King Comes to You … Palm Sunday
“Do not be afraid, city of Zion! Here comes your king, riding on a young donkey.” (Good News Bible Translation, John 12:15) Here is the “Goo...
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The Compassionate, Loving, Merciful, Redeeming, Grace Lavishing Father (The Truth of the Matter in an Old Story)
The story of the “Prodigal Son” in the Bible represents the awful rebellious, self-centered and selfish nature present in all humanity when ...
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The Parable of Two Sons, Who Do Not Know Their Father
There once were two sons, who lived a life of abundance. Their father had considerable wealth. The younger son was ungrateful, rude, impatie...
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This New Day
“To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise ...
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The only Peace, that is peace beyond the moment …
The peace of Christ ... The world surrounding us clamors and longs for peace. The soul within us aches for peace in the midst of life events...
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What water are you drinking?
“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will...
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A Prayer to Our Father in Heaven
Oh, Father in Heaven, You are magnificently beyond and above all of your creation which is vastly incomprehensible in its scope and complexi...
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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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No Words
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit (English Standard Version, Matthew 27:50). There are not enough words ...
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Busy Days
The days get busy and we rush around doing many things, but what is value.
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Realizing the blessing, mercy is to us!
“God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy” (Matthew 5:7, NLT). You and I are completely undeserving of the great mer...
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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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The Glistening Temple
The foundation was laid with massive stones hewn from deep in the earth. The walls leading up to the sacred place were true, straight, and p...
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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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The Crushing in the Garden
In the garden ... "And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove t...
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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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Steady My Gaze
Steady My Gaze Every second, every minute, every hour, every day, and everything yet to come, is in your hands, Oh Lord. I trust you with it...
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You shall not murder!
“Thou shalt not murder” (Exodus 20:13, NKJV) Of all the commandments, the commandment to not take a human life is one of the easiest command...
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The Crushing in the Early Hours
Wenceslaus Hollar, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Print, NGO Image, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain When He arrived at the place, He s...
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Tears and Joy
How can it be that our eyes can overflow with liquid emotion and our hearts can ache with intense joy at the same time? How can it be that t...
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The Dwelling Place
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fort...
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Mercy and grace are not something new with God!
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. There yo...
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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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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 Crushing in the Garden
Wenceslaus Hollar, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Print, NGO Image, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain When He arrived at the place, He s...
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Realizing the blessing that mercy is to us!
God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7, NLT) You and I are completely undeserving of the great mercy...
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The Incomprehensible Removal
He is merciful and tender toward those who don’t deserve it; he is slow to get angry and full of kindness and love. He never bears a grudge,...
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Confession is more than confessing our sin …
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions....
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This New Day
“To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise ...
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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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Beware of any intent to hurt and harm!
Pieter van der Heyden after Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Anger" National Gallery of Art, Public Domain – NGA Image “You have heard the l...
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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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This "Thank God Day"
Is not every day a "Thank God Day?" “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength” (Corrie Ten Boom). How...