April 17, 2016
Who should not fear you, King of the nations? This is your due. JEREMIAH 10:7 This coming Sunday, Fred Sanders will encourage us to “cultivate such a focus on God that we treasure him as our chief...
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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. 1 PETER 3:18 To bring us to God! Isn’t that the ultimate? The Psalmist longed for that, with...
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They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you. 1 PETER 4:5 The “they” Peter is talking about here is the world. Wikipedia defines peer pressure...
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“….in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.” 1 PETER 4:11 Christ’s love compels us…. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14 The passage being preached this coming Sunday highlights that we no longer live for...
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“….do not be surprised….” 1 PETER 4:12 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name. ACTS 5:41 Rejoicing? Seriously? Peter is...
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“All of you, clothe yourselves with humility.” 1 PETER 5:5 Remember how James and John’s mother came to Jesus with a request? Was she one of those moms who encouraged her boys to get ahead, and saw...
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“…standing firm in the faith…” 1 PETER 5:9 Though Satan walks around like a roaring lion looking for prey, Peter is confident that we can stand firm in the fiercest trial. But faith is a fight. It is...
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Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true....
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For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this...
View ArticleJune 19, 2016
“The Bible found me.” G. Campbell Morgan, pastor of Westminster Chapel in London, described a crisis of faith that centered around the Bible and the role that it would have in his life. For two years...
View ArticleJune 26, 2016
“….he is praying.” ACTS 9:11 The person speaking is the Lord as he gives Ananias his marching orders to go and pray for the new convert Saul, so that his sight can be restored. And the distinctive mark...
View ArticleJuly 3, 2016
I am like a green fir tree; From me is thy fruit found. HOSEA 14:28 That is God speaking, with a year-round-never-ending offer of spiritual health and vitality and fruitfulness. He is a giving God,...
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“See that you also excel in this grace of giving.” 2 CORINTHIANS 8:7 “The person of pseudo faith will fight for their verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow themselves to get into a predicament where...
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“I am among you as the one who serves.” LUKE 22:27 The disciples watched him serve. They had a front row seat. But the example he showed them did not slow “trickle down.” Jesus, of course, was fully...
View ArticleJuly 24, 2016
Rejoice with me… LUKE 15:7 Witnessing. Evangelizing. Sharing your faith. Whatever you call it, we shift nervously whenever the subject comes up, don’t we? So how could something that makes us break out...
View ArticleJuly 31, 2016
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ACTS 2:42 In a touching scene in Acts 20 as Paul says farewell to the Ephesian church, we...
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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ROMANS 8:18 God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will...
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Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. ISAIAH 54:2 Who could have imagined that the Lord would use these words...
View ArticleAugust 21, 2016
Not by might nor by power, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, says the LORD Almighty. ZECHARIAH 4:6 How important is the Holy Spirit? Consider Martin Luther’s perspective. Neither you nor I could ever know...
View ArticleAugust 28, 2016
And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” ISAIAH 6:3 Could there be better news than this, and worse news, all at the same...
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