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Our Evaluations
Too often we evaluate love, even God’s perfect love, by measure how we perceive the love of others.
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Investment Reading
???? Read Deuteronomy 17:14–20; Matthew 5–7 ???? Focus Where we invest our time pays dividends that we are often unaware of. …he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests. It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of
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Wisdom Bulk Up
???? Read Psalm 147:12–20; Proverbs 1:1–7; James 3:13–18 ???? Focus The reverence of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise knowledge and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 Lamsa Version … the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality
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Of Flesh and Heart
???? Read Genesis 17:1-14; Leviticus 12:2-8; Jeremiah 4:3-4; Jeremiah 9:25-26; Luke 2:22-38; ???? Focus “Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.”—Deuteronomy 10:16 (NRSVue) ✟ Devotion Circumcision is a core Jewish ritual. As such, we must remember that even Jesus was circumcised. It might seem
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Hallowed and Halos
???? Read Matthew 10:32–39; Matthew 28:16–20; Hebrews 11:33–12:2 ???? Focus “Everyone, therefore, who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven, but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.” Matthew 10:32–33 NRSVue “I believe in…the communion of saints” The Apostle’s Creed
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Evening Recall
“Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her canopy. Between the vestibule and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.
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Separating Ourselves
Romans 8:31–39, 1 John 4:7-12 ???? Read Romans 8:31–39 , 1 John 4:7–12 ???? Focus ”…nothing…can separate us from the love of God…”Romans 8:39 ✟ Devotion There is a fundamental truth, here, that no Christian should ever deny. Yet, if you read the list of “separators” that Paul notes, what do you see as missing?
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Hearts and Ashes
Is, happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, the way you live?