Tag: love
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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?
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Devoted?
Jesus said, “…if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?” It’s not just about an employer or shareholder or spouse or family, it’s about God.
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Our Blindings
When Jesus is asked who is saved, Jesus speaks about the narrow way. What if the narrow way is not about what we think it is?
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Walking With Saints
Read: Psalm 34:1–10, 22; 1 John 3:1-3; Revelation 7:9-17; Matthew 5:1-12 🔎 Focus After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.…
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Happiness and Joy…or Not
Psalm 44; Isaiah 22:8b–14; James 4:4–10 🔎 Focus Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? James 4:4 NRSVue …you did not look at the One who did it, nor did you see the One who planned it… Isaiah 22:11 NRSVue We don’t like pain or suffering. We often do…
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Successfully Unsuccessful
Psalm 144; Song of Solomon 8:5–14; John 11:45–57 ISV ⁜Focus⁜ A great deal of water cannot extinguish love,rivers cannot put it out.If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love,he would surely be viewed with contempt. Song of Solomon 8:7 ISV “…You don’t realize that it is better for you…
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Reconciling Fruit
Psalm 144; Isaiah 27:1–6; 2 Corinthians 5:17–21 (ISV) In times to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom, sprout shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit. Isaiah 27:6 ISV All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiah and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 2 Corinthians…