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Finding Lasting Joy

Philippians 2 remind us that Christ experienced a criminal’s death for us. You will never experience true joy, until you pursue someone else: Jesus. We pursue good things that can become God things and they defeat us.

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A Resurrection Hope

Even when all seems to be lost, we can allow God to act on our hearts and the situation at hand. Perhaps, joining in the lament that is circling the globe will cause a ripple effect. Maybe -someday- God will grant us the compassion and empathy to hear those who suffer so that we all might receive the gift of resurrection; not only in our small circles of relationships, but in our world.

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Surprised By Healing

Whether we experience healing or not, our healer is more important, more prominent, than our healing. For He is with us, he is all powerful, and his wisdom is infinite.

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The Lost Son and Unexpected Grace

God sent his greatest treasure. God brings an overflow of God’s grace. We can choose to come home, or not. God wants to bring you home.

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Encounters on the Way to the Cross

God is calling us to become like Jesus. I invite you to join me this week to think, talk and act like Christ and when we do this, He will keep our minds and hearts in perfect peace. I’m in, will you join me?

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How God Kept His Promise in Christ Jesus

We are unable to keep the old covenant, Jesus is the New Adam. He is better than Noah and he invited us to a new relationship with him. Hallelujah to the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.

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The Covenant of Order

May we daily rely on God’s Spirit and His world to bring order to our lives and we are going to experience blessing. This is the word of the Lord.

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Loving as God Loves

May we be inspired to emulate God’s love in our own lives and spread His message of love and salvation to others, loving as God loves.

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The Promise of Relationship

My friends, we are a new people, a part of a new kingdom to glorify God with our words, our actions, our giving, our worship, our loving.

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The Promise of Blessing

God blesses us with security, prosperity and authority. This is the word of the Lord for us, my friends.

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The Promise Keeper Who Provides

We had no way out, so Christ was sent to rescue us, to take on the wrath of God for us and redemption is made for us so that you and I will forever remember what we read in Romans 8:1, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

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Promise Keeper: The God Who Redeems

Our God is faithful and He is our redeemer. He keeps His promise to us. This is the word of the Lord.

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Who or What is Your Guiding Star

Take your thoughts captive, place your trust in Jesus, live for Him, and “the God of peace will be with you.” This is the word of the Lord.

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Habits for a Happy and Healthy New Year

Jesus will be king of this year only if you deliberately, intentionally submit it to him. He will be king of your decisions and problems this year only if you give them to him. If you want his power and purpose in your life today, make him your King.

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Magnifying the Lord

We choose to live with love as our guiding star. And that star leads us to each other… to listen to God’s cry in the silent night, to get out of our trenches and then to repair and build up God’s reign.

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You are Wanted and Important

Jesus is waiting for you to come home. Home to his stable, and one day to his throne room. Home to his love.

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Finding Life-Transcending Joy

Have you given your faith and life to Jesus Christ? Are you sharing that faith through your words, your work, and your witness, through your example and your life?

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Advent Candle Readings 2024

Readings to correspond with the lighting of the Advent Candles, December 2024.

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A Living Hope

Seek ways to share his hope, his joy, his help with the hurting and lonely hearts you meet. Ask God each day to make you his instrument of life-giving hope. Be John the Baptizer to your Jerusalem. Announce the coming of the Lord, until he returns. You will find no greater significance or joy than in giving the gift of Jesus, in this the season of his birth.

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God’s Abundant Provisions

The word challenges us to trust God in our times of need, to offer Him whatever we have, and to obey His leading with faith. As we do so, we can be assured that God will provide abundantly, turning our scarcity into overflowing blessings.

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