“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” Romans 12:1 January 2, 2023 It should go without saying that the life we live is done so with a physical body. The human body is […]
“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God
“For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.” Romans 11:36 December 29, 2022 Human beings love to praise the creation but not the Creator. The truth is that God is to be praised because He is supreme over all things. Why is it that we
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“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” Romans 11:34-35 December 28, 2022 It has been said that some of God’s tracks He has left plain to us, but others are beyond us. There is no
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?’” Romans 11:33 December 27, 2022 Exactly how smart is God? The problem is that that question is conditioned
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” Romans 11:33 December 26, 2022 It can be a good thing to encounter something that stuns and humbles us. When it comes to God we need to be overwhelmed by how much we
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“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11 December 23-25, 2022 Families will be gathering in excited anticipation of the gift giving time of the year. Lost in the frenzy of shopping and looking for just the right gift can steal our
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“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11 December 22, 2022 The secularization of our society has not yet erased the Christmas story recorded in Luke 2. The birth of the Christ child still holds an important place in our collective memory
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“…(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.” Luke 2:35. “But standing by the cross of Jesus was his mother.” John 2:25. “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness
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“And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.’” Luke 2:34 December 20, 2022
