Dear friends, Merry Christmas. I pray that as you have read these words, you are brought back to the miracle of Christ’s birth, the miracle of the fact that He has come with the sole purpose of saving us from sin (Luke 19:10), and the miracle of the fact that God Himself speaks to us.…
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” For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many ” (Matthew 10:45). “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with…
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Malachi 3:13 – 16: “Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of…
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Isaiah 49:10 ” They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them .” Food, water and shelter are the three basic necessities to sustain human life. In the same way, we need…
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“Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God ” (Acts 7:56). One of my favorite passages in all scripture is the story of Stephen in Acts, chapter 7. I want to be like Stephen. I pray that God would grow me into a disciple like Stephen.…
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“Why can’t God be fair?” That question just makes me cringe, but it’s a question that I hear so often and I remember when my Pastor said something about this very same question. He said something that upon first hearing makes sense and makes you say, “Oh, yeah, thank goodness!” But when you think about…
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“His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord” (Matthew 25:23). How would you like to hear that from Jesus? How would you like to hear that He is…
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Christmas is a celebration. If there is ever a gift to remember and to be thankful for – it is the birth of Jesus, only to be superseded by His death and resurrection. Even if we stopped there, we would have mentioned every gift we actually need! With the coming of Jesus to earth, we…
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Isaiah 40:31 “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Our days are never the same. Unlike the film Groundhog Day where the unfortunate character must live the same day over and over…
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Daniel 9:8-9 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; We are possessive individuals. We like to know what is ours, what actually belongs…
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