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God’s Word Will Never Pass Away
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but God’swords will by no means pass away” (Matthew 24:35). IN ESPECIALLY TRYING TIMES , WE NEED TO LIVE MORE IN THE WORD. We must put our faith in the Word. Then it wouldn’t matter if everybody in the whole world lost faith, or the whole world went haywire,…
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On Fire for God!
If there’s anything that catches people’s attention and causes them to sit up and take notice of what you’re saying or doing, it’s ENTHUSIASM! The word enthusiasm is derived from two Greek words: “En”, which means IN, and “theos”, which means GOD. So enthusiasm literally means “in God”, or “God in us”!
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Choose Gratitude
The great truth is that the best things in life are shared. At times when moving around and meeting with others is either impossible or greatly curtailed, we appreciate the truth of that even more. Many’s the time I’ve wished we could somehow overcome distance and time constraints to be with friends, eat, drink, be…
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God’s Plan
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G.K. Chesterton King Nebuchadnezzar came to Jerusalem, surrounded it, and destroyed it, and took the Jews into exile. They were forced to live in a foreign place against their will. The question becomes, how does God want them…
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Surprised by Hope (N.T. Wright)
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The God Who Works in You
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, one chapter is torn out of the book and translated into a better language. And every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators. Some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God’s hand shall bind up…
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Hold Fast
Let us hold fast the confession of our faith without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you…
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Invest and Grow
Christ understood that being a “disciple” was in innermost and deepest harmony with what He said about himself. Christ claimed to be the way and the truth and the life. For this reason, he could never be satisfied with adherents who accepted his teaching. … His whole life on earth, from beginning to end, was…
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Missing the Mark
Missing the Mark Throughout Scripture, we see “sin” identified in a variety of ways, including moral failure, law-breaking, poor spiritual hygiene, character flaws, a fatal disease, and a sinister slave-driver. Where sin is defined as “missing the mark,” Scripture implies the mark we’re aiming at may be morality, holiness, faith and faithfulness, love of God and each…
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Created for Unity
Every man possesses an inner chamber. Inside every human being there exists a bedchamber that only the Husband has access to. It’s a place created for love, an inner paradise. It’s the wine chamber spoken of in the Song of Solomon. — Ernesto Cardenal It must be understood that it is the duty of all…
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Still, We Preach
Each man will judge himself. Gathered there together will be those we met and helped. Also present will be those we scorned and denied. There will be no need to call for witnesses, because our own life will be there as evidence of what we did. No other charge–apart from a lack of Love—will be…
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God’s Time
He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. — 2 Corinthians 6:2 There are two meanings in the English word “time.” The ancient Greeks, however, who were much more perceptive…
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