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The Apple of God’s Eye
“For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.” Zechariah 2:8 April 15, 2024 If you are a Jew in a bunker in Israel during what turns out to be a long night of incoming…
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Models of Grace and Truth
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good.” Titus 2:3 April 12, 2024 Older Christian women are to be models. Surprised? Don’t be. God wants women who are aging into their latter years to model what it means to be…
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Older Women
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good.” Titus 2:3 April 10, 2024 Changes in life, empty nest, widowhood, grandchildren, final years. These are some of the opportunities older women in a church family have to serve God. A healthy…
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Who’s Your Hero?
“Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.” Titus 2:2 April 8, 2024 We live in a culture of celebrity worship. The absence of truth is suffocating. The Island of Crete was spiritually dismal. It was the mission of Titus to establish spiritually healthy churches. The presence…
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Serious-Minded Men
“Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.” Titus 2:2 April 5, 2024 Have you known or do you know some spiritually, serious-minded older men? Hopefully you have. These are the kind of men that should be noticeably present in Bible-believing churches. “Dignified” is the word Paul…
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Older Men
“Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.” Titus 2:2 April 3, 2024 What the church needs is older men who have the reputation as God-pursuers. The apostle Paul tasked Titus to establish strong churches on the island of Crete. The culture in Crete was one that…
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Handed Over
“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.” Romans 1:24 April 1, 2024 For many of us who belong to Jesus Christ, the celebration of the resurrection of the Son of God holds center place in our thoughts. At the same time,…
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The Silent Saturday
“In which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah….” 1 Peter 3:19-20 March 30, 2024 This we know and are assured of that Christ died for sins once for all (1 Pet. 3:18). This was on Friday (“Good…
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Ingratitude
“Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.” Romans 1:22-23 March 29, 2024 How did the world, as we know, get into the moral abyss in which it lives? God tells the story like it is.…