Jesus said, “There is none good except God,” so the revelation of “good” comes through the manifestation of God. We witness His goodness through the gift of His Son, whose death and resurrection we celebrate this week. The scriptures clearly proclaim that God is not only good, but He is love.…
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I sometimes wonder what the disciples were thinking when they said yes to following Jesus. Today we have the New Testament to let us know what we are getting ourselves into, but they did not have that. What did they have to go on? Jesus was already presenting differently than…
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Surely the blind man, whose eyes had not functioned properly since birth, must have assumed there was no hope that he would see. It would be one thing if he had lost his vision from disease as a child or because of an injury as an adult. Then he would…
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A.W Tozer once said, “If God takes away everything I have, I will love Him anyway. I will praise Him even if He slays me. We have to overcome, because the overcomer will be able to stand on that terrible day.” Our posture toward God should be one of continual…
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“A slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever” (John 8:35) In that passage Jesus was speaking to new believers, showing them the difference between their relationship to God under the old covenant and under the new. Under the old covenant they were subject to…
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The enemy’s attacks on an unbeliever are very different from his attacks on a believer. In the lives of people who have not put their trust in the saving work of Christ, the devil’s goal is to keep them from doing so. Ultimately, he wants to keep people eternally separated…
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According to Jesus, God so deeply cherishes you that He knows the number of hairs on your head. Science estimates most humans have on average 100,000 hairs on their scalp. If you put 10,000 people in a room, do you think you could determine which one has 99,569 hairs? Even…
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What is God’s will for our lives? The answer to that question is the holy grail, so to speak, of our existence. After all, once we know God’s definitive will for us, we’ll be able to spot every signpost and every trail marker on our walk with Christ. We’ll be…
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The candles flickered gently in the evening breeze as I sat with a friend on her screened-in porch. We were chatting about our children leaving for college after a busy summer with everyone unexpectedly home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that restrictions were lifting and her two kids were…
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Sometimes we just need to cry, don’t we? And who can understand that need better than one who felt it so deeply? The prophet Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet, and of all the people who walked the pages of the Old Testament, Jeremiah most resembles Jesus. The weeping prophet…
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