Tag Archives: Salvation

Reflecting With God 5/07/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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How God Condemned Sin

Tuesday May 7, 2024 Romans 8:3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 5/07/2024

Mercy and Judgment “God is judge,” we like to say—especially when someone is struggling with injustice. When we get to the book of Revelation, though, we might struggle to understand God’s judgment. Yet even as John describes God dispensing judgment, … Continue reading

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Daily Prayer & Praise 5/06/2024

Lord, hear our prayer: Father, we worship you for the riches with which you shower our lives and the riches of your grace with which you wish to fill our hearts. We thank you that in the empty cross and … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 5/06/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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Exalted Worship

Monday May 6, 2024 Isaiah 6:2-3 Above him stood the seraphim . . . And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” Now, because we … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 5/06/2024

Picturing God If you were to ask five people at random, “How do you picture God?” you would receive five very different answers. A social network prompt to “describe God in one word” confirms this idea: It resulted in more … Continue reading

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Sunday Prayer & Praise 5/05/2024

Dear Lord, hear our prayer: Father in Heaven, holy and just, I can’t help but thank You for Your Holy Spirit and the gift You give us of Him abiding within our hearts. Through Him, You lead us, guide us, … Continue reading

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Essential Insights on Faith 5/05/2024

The oppressed will not always be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever. PSALM 9:18 Billy Graham The deepest problems of the human race are SPIRITUAL. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for … Continue reading

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Classic Devotional 5/05/2024

Centuries of Meditations – First Century 84 Yet you must arm yourself with expectations of their infirmities, and resolve nobly to forgive them: not in a sordid and cowardly manner, by taking no notice of them, nor in a dim … Continue reading

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Saturday Prayer & Praise 5/04/2024

Isaac Ambrose: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Lord, if you give me yourself, I will have every gift. If you give me your Spirit, I will have every good thing. Come, Holy Spirit, and dwell in my soul. I know … Continue reading

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Life In Focus 5/04/2024

Holiness – Its Not Just a Place FOR many, the word “holy” brings to mind special places such as cathedrals and temples. It would be easy to limit our concept of holiness to such concrete examples, especially when we see … Continue reading

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God’s Seminary

Saturday May 4, 2024 Daniel 1:17 As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. God is preparing you for the ministry that He … Continue reading

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Faith From The Beginning 5/04/2024

For Us Also WHAT was true of Abraham is true today. Salvation and justification still come by believing God’s Word concerning His Son, His miraculously conceived, supernaturally born Son. That is what John says in 1 John 5:9-10: “If we … Continue reading

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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 6

Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 When it comes down to it, the cross was, after all, not an event outside the realm of politics. The largest, best-organized, and relatively most just empire in world history was executing a nonviolent Teacher … Continue reading

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Daily Prayer & Praise 5/03/2024

Lord, hear our prayer: Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank you that though you are a high and a holy God, you are not remote, unmoved or unfeeling, but you live in the hearts of your people. We praise … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 5/03/2024

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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John 16:8

Friday May 3, 2024 John 16:8 “And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.” We have noted before the quiet comfort contained in these words of Jesus. But you will perhaps say: the … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 5/03/2024

Persist, Don’t Just Exist The phrase “patient endurance” brings to mind the pasted-on smile of a parent regarding a misbehaving child—a parent clinging to the hope that someday this stage will pass. In Revelation the term is used in a … Continue reading

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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 5

Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Some of the alternative understandings of what the cross is about are quite right in their place; others are more questionable. Yet none of them is appropriate if understood as a replacement, rather than a … Continue reading

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