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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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The Passion of Patience
Thursday May 2, 2024 Habakkuk 2:3 If it seems slow, wait for it. Patience is not indifference; patience conveys the idea of an immensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts. The vision of God is the source of patience, because it … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 5/02/2024
The Last Person You Would Expect Yahweh is capable of doing anything and everything He pleases. If He were not a good God, this would be deeply frightening, but considering His wonderful character, this is comforting. In Ezekiel 26:1-6, Yahweh … Continue reading
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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 4
Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 The gospel of Christ is not obscure and deceitful. It does not ask for blind faith, faith without a reason, but it does ask for confession. It does not spare us the decision to recognize … Continue reading
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Galatians 5:22-23
Wednesday May 1, 2024 Galatians 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit is . . . gentleness. Nature’s harshness has melted away and she is now beaming with the smile of spring, and everything around us whispers of the gentleness of … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 5/01/2024
Kingdom Politics We sometimes jump on the bandwagon with politics. Yet if we put our full trust in political candidates, or believe their rise to power is an indication of our future—a common campaign platform—we’re putting our hope in something … Continue reading
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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 3
Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 The cross of Christ later comes to have other meanings as well as the ones we covered in the previous part. It may be spoken about as penalty, as sacrifice, or as victory. But all … Continue reading
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The Fourfold Treasure
Tuesday April 30, 2024 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 4/30/2024
Greener Grasses When God’s people turn from Him, the biblical story becomes solemn, sad, and explicit. “Now as for their names, the older was Oholah, and Oholibah was her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters, … Continue reading
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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 2
Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 When the Apostle Paul says, “Jews demand signs,” we can surmise that statement sets the tone and is the precedent for the visions of national renewal by means of military upheaval which today are destroying … Continue reading
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But God Seems Remote
Monday April 29, 2024 Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. The reason we sense that God is remote … Continue reading
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Spiritual Nuggets 4/29/2024
The Power Behind the Drama The concerns that make up our mini-narratives can sometimes distract us from the great drama in which we have been cast. When a mighty angel appears with a scroll in John’s revelation, the apostle’s part … Continue reading
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The Cross, Wisdom and Power – 1
Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 The apostle Paul was no anthropologist. When he speaks here of Jew and of Greek he is most likely not saying that a specific race, even less a specific religion, makes its members all the … Continue reading
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Essential Insights on Faith 4/28/2024
The oppressed will not always be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever. PSALM 9:18 Billy Graham Human nature is the same the world over, and when the gospel of Christ is preached in SIMPLICITY and POWER, … Continue reading
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