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Reading the New Testament in the brand new year?
“Connecting with Christ Bible Reading Plan” Do you want to experience a daily connection with Christ in your life? Do you want to have the H...
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Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment
Connecting with Christ with Total Abandonment To be a true follower of Christ as Lord, there must be an exclusive abandonment of everything...
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The Favor of God is Life
The Christ Child comes as light shinning in the shadows, a warmth beckoning through the cold, a myriad of color dancing in the moment, a ful...
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Far and Near
Far and Near Christ is far above all things, for all things were created by Him and through Him. God in every extent, far and wide gives bre...
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Releasing the Lump into the Hands of the Potter
Our lives, as Followers of Christ, and Children of God, if they are given up and over to God, are being constantly fashioned into an ever u...
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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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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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The Indescribable Gift of Creation and The Incomprehensible Creator God
The Indescribable and The Unsearchable, Unfathomable God Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is [so vast and prof...
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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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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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Looking Again, to See as God Sees
To see as God sees ... There is an aspect of seeing that we can miss at times, even if we have eyes to see everything around us. We can in o...
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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 Soil of Our Hearts
We have hope in the seeds we eagerly and expectantly plant in the garden each spring. We trust in the name, quality, and potential of those ...
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God is the good in all things!
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose (Romans 8:...
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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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The Gospel is Good News
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to...
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Christ comes for everyone!
He comes 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...
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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 Fruit of the Holy Spirit
The fruit of our days … “But the Holy Spirit produces this fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,...
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Beware of the adulterous heart …
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the wo...
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Unchanging in a changing world.
Every day as we look around us, things change. People change, positions change, prospects change and even our health changes. Some changes...
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Being Still
Being Still ... “Be still (quit striving), and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psa...
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Connect with Christ
Connecting with Christ ... We are all part of humanity. Humanity coming alive from what source? Humanity, given breath and life for what pur...
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Connecting with Christ ... A Love Beyond Compare!
Connecting with Christ ... Longsuffering and liberating, overcoming and overreaching, valiant and vigilant, and extravagant and eternal are ...
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Looking again, to see as God sees …
"It says,” … “that you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all you...
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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 straight and true pos...
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Idols in our lives ...
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or th...
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God is the good in all things!
God is the good in all things! And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called accordin...
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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 Sabbath is not about a day but about our Great God!
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8, KJ21). The Commandment regarding the Sabbath is clear and concise in its tone, con...
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God's Purpose for the Bible
It really doesn’t matter to God, nor does it affect you or anyone around you: if you own a Bible, read a Bible or even if your name is found...
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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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What We Are
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1 NIV). D...
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There is life in the Word of God.
Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because yo...
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Desiring the Spirit of God
“Do not be filled up with the empty beverages of the earth focused life ... this only leads to foolish living and endless unfulfilled stupor...
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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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The agreeable soil of our hearts ...
This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is God’s word. The seeds that fell on the footpath represent those who hear the message, only t...
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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 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 fruit of our days …
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and ...
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The Comforter is Coming!
Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4, ESV) An enemy seems to have triumphed. Expectations for future good...
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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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The Walk
There are walks which are easy where the course of the path is straight and relatively flat, devoid of any difficulty. Then again, some walk...
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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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Name above all names ...
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isaia...
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The Lord is our strength and our shield.
“The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.” (P...
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A Branch on the Vine
Living as a branch on the vine ...
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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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Seeing hope and beauty in a difficult place ...
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up th...
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The Light in us …
Jesus is the Light of the World, are you journeying in your life looking to Him, and is His light in you, shining in the darkness?
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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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Looking Again at Being “Born Again”
Sometimes we see it as born again into eternal life. If salvation is solely emphasized, we reduce our Christ to a ticket broker to heaven. H...
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In the deepest anguish, a soaring hope …
Theodor Galle after Jan van der Straet Jeremiah Published 1613 Print National Gallery of Art, NGO Image, Public Domain “My soul continually ...
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A summer blessing …
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like cal...
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God is more …
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be the glory i...