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When Jesus heals a deaf and mute man, it seems strange to us that Jesus would touch the man’s tongue with his spit. We would not do it in our modern era, with our focus on hygiene.
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As we read about Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman, it's clear she wasn’t Jewish. The way that Jesus treated this Gentile woman may seem strange to us.
Welcome to Real Life. "The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire." –C.G. Jung Is ...
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What defiles you does not come from the outside. Trusting Jesus and accepting His forgiveness is key to stay clean.
Have you ever felt that your concerns were too small to bother God with—that they seemed frivolous in comparison to what’s going on in the world? A friend has breast cancer. A parent has dementia. A neighbor’s house burned to the ground. Then there’s world hunger, climate change, and devastating natural disasters around the world. It’s easy to fall into the false trap of thinking that those are the only types of prayers worth mentioning…and the smaller ones we need to keep to ourselves.
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The worst human traditions are the ones that nullify the Word of God. These traditions are usually based on our own selfishness, rather than love for others...
Many posts in January 2024 emphasized that New Jerusalem is spiritual; it is not a physical city. All the characteristics of New Jerusalem must be interpreted spiritually; they should not be unders…
In Genesis a couple of people made references to God's unfailing love. But in our verse for today, the Lord Himself revealed His unfailing love as a part of His
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You might be asking yourself, what is hypocrisy? Jesus says hypocrisy is when you say you follow God, but instead, you follow human traditions...
Revelation 17-18 presents a woman named Babylon and chapters 19, 21-22 reveal a woman named New Jerusalem who is the bride, the wife of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. The sixty-six books of the Bible spea…
Luke started his gospel by stating that many people began writing accounts about what they observed. I believe they wanted everyone to read what God did through
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The traditions of the Pharisees, refers to hundreds of more specific laws besides the Torah, oral laws that had been handed down from previous generations.
For several weeks, I’ve prayed that God would continue to amaze his people with the gospel and that we do not grow stagnant in our walk with Christ. I pray also that we continue to press on toward the upward call of God in Christ (Philippians 3:14). I can pray this prayer as easily as I can speak them. You can too. The question is not whether God will answer with a “yes” or “no” because we know this is God’s will for his children. The question is, will we recognize God’s affirmative answer to t
The previous two posts focus on Colossians 1:27, Christ in us the hope of glory. This is the hope of our Lord’s glorious, public appearing (Titus 2:13) to reign over the earth, and our being …
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These tough fishermen were so terrified that they screamed. But Jesus told them not to be afraid, and Jesus Calms the Wind as soon as he climbed into the boat!
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The power of Jesus to deliver healings in the Gennesaret Region was so great, that everyone who even just touched the edge of his cloak was healed.
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From 5 small loaves of bread and 5 fish, after 000's of people had eaten, there were 12 full baskets of leftovers. And these weren’t small baskets either!
Read Matthew 6:25-33In verse 33, Jesus essentially told His disciples that anxiety is a misplaced focus on the temporal, on what they will eat, drink, and wear. This is the focus of the unsaved, Jesus said. But it should not be the focus of God’s redeemed children.Jesus instructed His disciples, and us today, to instead recalibrate our focus from the earthly to the eternal, to “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.”We understand from the last devotion (Faith: The Antidote to Anxie
Colossians 1:27 declares that Christ in us is our hope of glory. God desires to be glorified/ expressed in Christ through all of His people and He certainly will accomplish this. Ultimately New Jer…
Then Deborah said to Barak, "Get ready! This is the day the Lord will give you victory over Sisera, for the Lord is marching ahead of you. Judges 4:14 After