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With experience, we become skilled at hiding stored-up bitterness, resentment, and unforgiveness. Our secrets are hidden, but God searches the heart.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Manacled Minds: Setting the Captives Free
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Christians are becoming increasingly entangled with religious, political, and academic systems that shackle the mind. We live in a world of constructs that draw people away from Christ. Driven to save the world, many Christians try to solve spiritual problems with manmade solutions.
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Eternal Inheritance: Jesus is Our Benefactor
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
Saturday Apr 20, 2024
We have done nothing to earn salvation or the Spirit. It was God’s will to sacrifice his only Son so that we could be redeemed. It was God's will to send the Holy Spirit to comfort us. And through his New Testament—the blood of the New Covenant—he washes away our sins. Many ignore his calls, but the Lord blesses believers with eternal life—by his Spirit.
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Drop the Stones! Jesus Stuns the Hypocrites
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
Saturday Apr 13, 2024
The problem with the Pharisees is that they dropped the stones but carried their stony hearts away with them. The Lord searches our hearts to see what we treasure. Through him, the light of truth exposes sin. No one is sinless, so how we receive the Word matters. Do we repent or walk away? Jesus warned his disciples to take heed how they hear.
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Let Patience Do Her Job: Wait on the Lord
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Sunday Apr 07, 2024
Many believers grow impatient and irritable with God, especially during trials. God promised never to leave or forsake us, but we often impatiently interfere with his plans, causing unnecessary suffering and delays. Actually, we think we are waiting for God, but he is waiting for us to trust him. Every promise God made is sure.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Hide-and-Seek: Wholeheartedly Searching for God
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Like Adam and Eve, we try to play hide-and-seek with God. Recall the couple was tempted to sin in the garden. Indeed, we all have been cast out of the garden, for all have sinned. We can try to hide, but God will find us. Every person will face him, now or later. The good news is that God sent his only Son not to condemn the world but to save it.
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Mysteries of the Kingdom: The Prince of Peace
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Once Jesus reveals the kingdom’s mysteries, we can understand his title as the Prince of Peace. God reigns over all creation as the supreme ruler, but we have violated his commandments. Thus, to save us from certain death, he sent his Son. Everything in history pivots around that moment in time. Jesus’s birth, death, and resurrection prove that the kingdom of God is at hand.
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Centurion Faith: At the Lord's Command
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
Sunday Mar 17, 2024
The impossible is possible for believers. Jesus marveled at the centurion's great faith. Faithfulness pleases God, and, in return, he makes us whole.
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