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God Transforms Us Through Suffering

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by ...

A Lavish Offering

Reading: Luke 21:1-4[The widow] out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. – Luke 21:4Additional Scripture Readings: Luke 6:38; 2 Corinthians 8:12The widow shuffled up the ...

Jesus Is the Gate

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that ...

The Lamb of God Who Takes Away the Sin of the World!

Tell the whole community of Israel that… each man is to take a lamb for his family… The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect… All the members ...

Jesus: The Wellspring of Living Water

READ: John 4:3-30Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal ...

God's Grace Waits for Our Repentance

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in His field. – Matthew 13:24READ: Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43THICKEN THE PLOT: Psalm 73:1-28; Ezekiel 33:10-16; 2 Peter ...

Jesus and the Children

Mark 10:13-16It is unimaginable to picture a wooden faced, stoic, joyless and judgmental Jesus as He reclined with ragamuffins.The human personality of Jesus is underrated when it is perceived as ...

Jesus vs. Death

I will tell you something that has been secret: that we are not all going to die, but we shall all be changed. – 1 Corinthians 15:51I was only going ...

God's Not Dead

Last weekend marked the opening weekend of God’s Not Dead, a film directed by Harold Cronk and released by Pure Flix Entertainment. The film introduces us to Josh Wheaton (Shane ...

Jesus, the Wedding Guest

Jesus… The man. The bronzed Galilean who spoke with such thunderous authority and loved with such childlike humility. He could have lived over us or away from us. But He ...

Jesus, Equal With God

John 5:19-47JN – Then Jesus answered and said to them, “ Most assuredly, This is an emphatic way of saying, “I’m telling you the truth.” in response to Jewish hostility ...

I Am With You

I AM WITH YOU. I am with you. I am with you.Heaven’s bells continually peal with that promise of My Presence. Some people never hear those bells because their minds ...

Jesus Wept

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of ...

Raising the Dead and Feeding the Five Thousand

Jesus raised His friend Lazarus from the dead. What was significant about the words of the dead man’s sister Martha when Lazarus still lay in the grave?When Jesus heard the ...

A Heart Like Jesus

What if, for one day, Jesus were to become you? What if, for twenty-four hours, Jesus wakes up in your bed, walks in your shoes, lives in your house, assumes ...

Discovering Jesus in Old Testament Proverbs

The book of Proverbs is the Old Testament’s Twitter. After some introductory chapters that present wisdom’s beauty, benefits, and beckonings, we encounter hundreds and hundreds of Tweets – short, pithy, ...

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