Tag Archives: Scriptures

Reflecting With God 5/08/2024

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 12:24

Wednesday May 8, 2024 John 12:24 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. Death and resurrection are the central ideas of nature and Christianity. We see them in the transformation of the chrysalis, in the buried … Continue reading

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Spiritual Nuggets 5/08/2024

Shepherding Is a Tough Business Leadership requires accountability, yet many leaders of the past considered themselves above rebuke. Even when their deeds failed to catch up to them in their own lifetimes, history judged them clearly. History often remembers and … Continue reading

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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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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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Praise The Lord 5/05/2024

Your People Rejoice, O Lord! How we Your people rejoice in Your strength, O LORD! We shout with joy because You give us victory. For You have given us our heart’s desire; You have withheld nothing we have requested. You … 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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Anecdotal Story 5/05/2024

A Mother’s Memory Scripture References: Joshua 22:21-28; John 11:51-52 In 1961, a seventeen-year-old runaway who was serving time in a reform school surrendered the son born to her there. In 1980 she began a determined effort to find the boy … 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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Food For Thought 5/04/2024

God Will Make an Impression When Robert Morrison, the first missionary to go to China, disembarked from his ship in a Chinese port, the captain sneeringly said, “So you think you are going to make an impression upon China.” Morrison … 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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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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