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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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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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Ever Thankful Prayer
A prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! Thank you, that I dwell in the shelter o...
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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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Ever Thankful Prayer (Congregational Format)
Ever Thankful for You, Oh Lord! (A Psalm 91 Prayer – Congregational Version) Thank you, that we dwell in the shelter of You, God Most High a...
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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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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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At the speaking of our name …
“But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own s...
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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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Knowing the Truth
He is the truth ... Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have put asid...
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Meeting the Savior on our rebellious roads?
He is there ... “For by grace are ye saved through faith …” (Ephesians 2:8; KJ21). For centuries … parents, poets, politicians, philosophers...
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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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Christ is the True Light and Life
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in al...
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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 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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When we have nothing to bring to the altar.
“But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high! I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him wi...
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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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Gates
Gates are interesting objects. They can be ornate or simple. They can be functional or decorative. They can be massive or flimsy. They can b...
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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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Our Humble King
Our Humble King On the next day many people who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of ...
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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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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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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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Seeing, Realizing and Living
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth with a measure ...
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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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Meeting the Savior on our rebellious roads …
“For by grace are ye saved through faith …" (Ephesians 2:8, KJ21). For centuries … parents, poets, politicians, philosophers, teachers, prea...
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Seeing the Savior who travels beyond all sin to bring salvation.
You will say on that day, “I will give thanks to You, O Lord. Even though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away and You comfort ...
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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 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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Our Humble King
On the next day many people who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and w...
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Kiss the Son
Jesus Christ is more … Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take...
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At the speaking of our name …
But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sh...
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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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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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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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The Incarnation (God’s gift to the world)
“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was J...
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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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To every thing there is a season
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven – A time to give birth and a time to die; a tim...
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Living and dying ...
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done ...
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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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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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A time beyond the times of our lives.
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven – A time to give birth and a time to die; a tim...
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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 ...