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Joshua knew that complete obedience to God’s commands is essential to the continual enjoyment of God’s blessings.
Pastor Chuck Swindoll, in ...
... that perhaps led some to believe a false gospel, crept into the Colossian church. That”s why Paul, right at the start, recorded a hymn exalting Jesus Christ. His song might be one of the ...
For the individual follower of Christ, the single most practical book in the Bible is probably James. For the church, it’s got to be 1 Timothy. And as ...
Many people worship the god of success, sacrificing their time, energy, and focus to achieve their ... you to pursue eternal significance and be truly well-off in God’s eyes.
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The most grisly spectacle of the ancient world was to see a human being crucified. It was a cruel and ghastly punishment, usually reserved for only the most detestable criminals. And yet, this was the means by which Jesus died. ...
“Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever ... be thirsty” (John 6:35).
Origins: Bread was part of the Passover deliverance and “bread from heaven” sustained Israel in the desert (Exodus 16:4)
Meaning: Bread, a basic dietary item synonymous ...
... purity," we are told. Or, as one air-headed soul said during the last presidential campaign, "We're voting for president, not pope."
To ... That kind of logic (or rather, lack of logic) gives me the jitters. Such reasoning reminds me of a piece of nonsense I learned in ...
... envelopes—us every day of our lives. It is behind all of God’s actions, it prompts His movements in our direction, it takes the galling exactness out of our response to please Him, and it relieves us ...
God has a way of turning the world’s values upside-down by bringing eternity into view.
The sad departure of the rich, young official sparked a conversation between ...
... Dietrich Bonhoeffer vividly portrays with his pen the battleground of our experience. We can all identify with this scene:
... love of fame and power or greed for money…At this moment God is quite unreal to us. He loses all reality, and only desire for the ...
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Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment.
To quit, to run, to escape, to hide—none ...
... thousand years ago, Jerusalem would be an incredible place. The central narrative of Scripture, both completed and yet to come, revolves ... was in Jerusalem that the life of everyone who has turned to God was set apart. It's at the cross of Jesus Christ that life begins. And when ...
The skeptic says, “I won’t believe in anything that I can’t see or feel.” Then why do the hobgoblins of his or her mind invent very real devils where none exist? Is ... reject their own intuitive knowledge of things unseen? The ancients were comfortable with the truth that reality exists in two ...
... Do you need to be set free? Honestly now, is your next step the need to forgive? Do it. Don't let anything or anyone talk you out of it. I ... one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:32)
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... were never designed to be ministries limited to “the pros.” One of the arch-enemies of evangelism is false propaganda—wrong ... to sleep.” So, many of us grow up believing that serving God is for somebody else. Let’s take some time to examine the truth.
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At the close of Genesis, the Hebrews were in Egypt. A famine in Canaan had forced them to make this ... in Egypt as they once had been. Exodus is an account of how God miraculously delivered His people and then began to train them to walk in ...
... Roman authorities (Acts 24:27; 28:30). However, his time in the Mamertine dungeon was something new. It was a cold, dark, foul-smelling place; little more than a hole in the ground under the crowded streets of Rome. And though Dr. Luke had cared for ...
It is one thing to say that God is sovereign and in total control. In fact, if we harp on that and emphasize only that, it can potentially leave the false impression that God is distant, removed, and that we are merely robots carrying out what He has ...
The prophet Daniel is unquestionably one of the most remarkable men not only in the Bible but also in all of Jewish history. The book that bears his name ...
... but ignoring them or giving in to them are not good options. The same is true in the family of God. Throughout the history of the church, there have been those who stirred up ...
