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It is for freedom
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1). While preparing my sermon for this coming Sunday, I started humming a…
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Do we really see the sun?
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory” (Hebrews 1:3 NIV). Scientists tell us that it takes eight minutes for the light from the sun to reach earth. Having reached the earth, sunlight is refracted through the atmosphere creating a…
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Thankful for our Supreme Reconciler
“For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross” (Colossians 1:19-20).…
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Servant leaders needed
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant…” (Philippians 2:5-7). “Can I intern at the church…
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Words that lead to a name change
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12 NIV). Robin and I celebrated our 32 year anniversary this week. We went to the beach…
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Greater things?
“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12). What do you think Jesus meant when…
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End times questions that God does answer
“He said to them: ‘It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…
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Raison d’être
“For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose” (Philippians 2:13). “To be or not to be” (Shakespeare, Hamlet)? What is our purpose? Why do we exist? Or as the French…
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Finding family
“… You belong to God’s family” (Ephesians 2:19 NCV). “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal…
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Is your hope alive?
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3-5 NIV). “I…