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Because I Loved Them
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who ...
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Fount of Every Blessing
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” James 1:1...
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A Different Kind of 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 E...
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The Truest of Loves
“…may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpas...
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Encourage Each Other
“So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Several years ago, a friend’s preschooler wen...
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Worry Better
“God is within her, she will not fail.” Psalms 46:5 I don’t know about you, but sometimes I worry like it is going out of style. And I’ll tell you w...
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Don’t Forget About Your Best Friend
“You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the w...
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He Won't Let Go
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anyth...
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The Love of God: Deep and Wide
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hea...
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Asking for Help
“He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” Psalm 121:3-4 I...
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The Broken but Beautiful Bride of Christ
“Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying ou...
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Crowned with Glory and Honor
“What is man that you are mindful of him? The son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glor...
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Stop Hiding Your Light
“You are the light of the world, a city on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, ...
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Secret Missions with God: Give
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. ...
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The Me Idol
“How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?” John 5:44 “He must increase,...
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The Heart of a Pharisee: Focusing on the Superficial
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self...
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More, Not Less: A Practice for Lent
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 O...
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Extraordinary Promises for Today
“This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 Are you a countdown person? When I was younger, I was a huge cou...
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Fear Is Fraud
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous ri...
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Being Content With What We Have
“But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clot...
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Shining for Jesus
“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved gen...
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Who Jesus Came For
“Jesus answered them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.’” Luk...
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The Shepherd's Voice
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.” John 10:14 Think about what goes on when you answer the phone. Sometimes you recogni...
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Why We (Still) Need John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 John 3:16 i...
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You Can't Have Jesus without His Bride
“And lest us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging on...
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Jesus’s 7 “I AM” Statements
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12 For as long as I have been a Chri...
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Who Do You Say That I Am?
“And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And...
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Knowing Jesus for Ourselves
“Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I ever did.’ So when the Samaritans c...
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The Heart of a Pharisee: Majoring on the Minors
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more...
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Better Than We Could Ever Dream Up
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 Rev. Steve Brown says that a friend onc...