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Praise The Lord 2/23/2024
The Lord Is My Fortress! I love You, Lord; You are my strength. You Lord are my rock, my fortress, and my savior; You God are my rock, in whom I find protection. You are my shield, the power that … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/23/2024
Riddle Me This Jesus’ enemies regularly attempted to make Him look foolish or to disprove His authority. The absurd questions they concocted to discredit Him are rather amusing. The Sadducees posed one of the most preposterous questions about the resurrection … Continue reading
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I Have Called You Friends – 3
Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 From Last Lesson: Jesus did have to die for us. He died to reveal the Father’s compassion, not to appease the Father’s love. That may be the first thing we need to make perfectly clear. Christian … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/22/2024
Who Is Trustworthy? We might get sidetracked when reading the Parable of the Ten Minas. Businessmen aren’t sympathetic characters in our modern world. In movies and sometimes in life, they’re often flat, miserly characters who take advantage of naïve individuals … Continue reading
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I Have Called You Friends – 2
Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 The arms race today, and the once called “cold-war” is like that. It is the cut that exposes the grain. The grain is national chauvinism, the assumption of moral superiority inherent in our kind of people … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/21/2024
God the Innovator Innovators often say they learn more from their failures than their successes. The successes come as a result of repeated failures, whether in business or in life. We must learn from our mistakes if we are to … Continue reading
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I Have Called You Friends – 1
Scripture Reference: John 15:12-25 The man who is speaking the words in our reference scriptures will be dead and buried approximately twenty-four hours later. He is preparing a small circle of His followers to be ready to live without Him. … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/20/2024
Complaints Complaining can be automatic. We complain about the weather, our children, our jobs. And we might do it for any number of reasons—even something as trivial as to keep a conversation going. Although we might complain lightly, we still … Continue reading
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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 4
Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 5. There Is Grace Abounding in the Lives of God’s People Luke told us that “great grace was upon them all” (Acts 4:33). The word grace here could be exchanged for the word Christlikeness. These people … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/19/2024
Transitions Life is marked by seasons—times of great difficulty and times of great joy. Usually we focus on making the transition from pain to relief as quickly as possible, but in the process, we may forget the significance of the … Continue reading
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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 3
Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 3. There Is a Desire to Evangelize Acts 4:29 is probably the most challenging verse in this Scripture. “Now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with … Continue reading
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Praise The Lord 2/18/2024
I Will Bless the Lord I said to the Lord, “You are my Master and my God! Every good thing I have comes from You.” LORD, You alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You stand guard over me … Continue reading
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Essential Insights on Faith 2/18/2024
Good news from a distant land is like cold water to a parched throat. PROVERBS 25:25 Billy Graham My calling is to preach the LOVE of God and the FORGIVENESS of God and the fact that He DOES FORGIVE us. … Continue reading
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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 2
Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 1. There Is a Continuous Desire to Pray A praying church recognizes the supreme importance of prayer, and always desires to pray. This is illustrated in the lives of the leaders of the Jerusalem church. Peter … Continue reading
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Faith From The Beginning 2/17/2024
Needs But Little IT does not take a great deal of salt to flavor and to preserve, usually only a pinch. So, too, a few believers, yes, one believer, has more power with God than a world full of diplomats … Continue reading
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The Anointing of a Praying Church – 1
Scripture Reference: Acts 4:23-31 Acts 4 is an account of a church at prayer. What wonderful things happened! An earthquake shook the building. Christians were filled with the Holy Spirit. Boldly they began to witness. There was unity in the … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/16/2024
The Pursuit of Failures Often, when we focus too much on our own failures, we don’t reach the point where grace changes us. That’s why the parable of the Prodigal Son is so comforting for people who are caught up … Continue reading
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It Is Finished – 11
Scripture Reference: John 19:28-30 Concluding Thoughts From Last Lesson: There is no real and sincere wisdom, righteousness or true love among men unless it comes from Him who so loved His creation that He was willing to be forsaken of … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 2/15/2024
The Cost of Comfort “ ‘[You all] comfort; comfort my people,’ says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has received from … Continue reading
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It Is Finished – 10
Scripture Reference: John 19:28-30 3. Jesus Addressed Those He Had Come to Redeem – Continued From Last Lesson: I would like to continue on addressing some of the saints of the Old Testament with words of comfort that Jesus Christ … Continue reading
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