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Prayer & Praise 2/02/2025
Robert Hawker: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Dear and blessed Lord, you are our inheritance and portion forever. Glorious, gracious, and almighty Father, your choice and your gift confirm, sweeten, and sanctify your eternal and unspeakable mercy. Holy and blessed … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 7
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Kingdom Keeps on Growing – Continued From Last Lesson: The Jews of Israel expected the Day of the Lord would come at once, and God’s enemies would immediately be subjugated. The story would end with … Continue reading
Posted in Expository Teaching
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 6
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Kingdom Keeps on Growing – Continued From Last Lesson: All this sowing and planting and rooting and growing has been for a purpose, because there is a harvest to come from it. So, what is … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 5
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Kingdom Keeps on Growing In the remainder of this section (Mark 4:26-34), Jesus tells two more parables on the “people are plants” theme, and then Mark neatly closes the section on the parables by telling … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 4
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Purpose of the Parables – Continued From Last Lesson: Jesus tells the parables to everyone. The opportunity is there for anyone to come and ask Him for more. In fact this is what Mark 4:24-25 … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 3
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Purpose of the Parables You might be asking the question, why does Jesus use parables at all? Why doesn’t He just say, for instance, “Look, when I preach, people will react in these four different … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 2
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 The Parable of Parables Of all the parables of Jesus, this parable of the sower is probably the best known. Here is a farmer; it’s the time of year for sowing, and out he goes into … Continue reading
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Ears That Hear, Hearts That Understand – 1
Scripture Reference: Mark 4:1-34 Imagine that you have bought yourself some furniture that needed assembly. You dig out the instructions and start leafing through. You find the diagrams and think to yourself, “no problem.” Yet as you continue, you see … Continue reading
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Both Easy and Difficult
January 24, 2025 Jude 25 To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen. But the God we must see is not the utilitarian God who is having such … Continue reading
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Tagged A.W. Tozer, Bible, Christian, Christian Quotes, Christianity, Church, Comfort, Daily Thoughts, Devotions, Encouragement, Exhortations, God, Gospel-Centered, Heavenly Father, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Inspirational Quotes, Instruction, Jesus Christ, Life Lessons, Lord, Motivational, Practical Living, Quotes, Religion, Righteousness, Salvation, Scriptures, Spiritual Principles, Spirituality, Teaching, Theology, Truth, Wisdom, Word of God, Worship
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Spiritual Nuggets 1/22/2025
I Will Teach You What to Say “Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say” (Exodus 4:12). Moses said, “Here am I.” Others too had said and would say, “Here am … Continue reading
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Life In Focus 1/20/2025
How Jesus Handled Fame IT is easy to feel intimidated in the presence of a famous person. People of status and image can easily make us feel inferior, as if we have nothing to offer by comparison. Jesus, however, who … Continue reading
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Tagged Actions, Bible, Christian, Christianity, Church, Comfort, Decisions, Encouragement, God, Gospel-Centered, Heavenly Father, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Instruction, Jesus Christ, Life Lessons, Lord, Practicalities, Religion, Righteousness, Salvation, Scriptures, Spiritual Principles, Spirituality, Teaching, Theology, Truth, Wisdom, Word of God, Worship
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Learning to Worship In Life – 5
Scripture Reference: Mark 2:1-12 Our Deepest Need – as People The crowd that gathered around Jesus was made up of two principal groups of people, those friendly toward Him and those troubled by Him. The scribes were outwardly hostile toward … Continue reading
Posted in Pastor's Desk
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Learning to Worship In Life – 4
Scripture Reference: Mark 2:1-12 Our Need to Be Useful – the Philanthropists My imagination is captured by these four nameless friends of the paralytic. When I read this story, I imagine what might happen should one of our worship services … Continue reading
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Learning to Worship In Life – 3
Scripture Reference: Mark 2:1-12 Our Unspoken Needs – the Paralytic There’s a sense in which each of us is like the paralytic. We have needs which we may never share with anyone else, but they are nonetheless real. In the … Continue reading
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