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Please open your Bible and read John 2:1-11.
What's the significance of Jesus' miracle of turning water to wine? It's easy to understand His healing miracles and multiplying bread and fishes to feed the multitudes. But why water to wine?
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Complaining in the Wilderness
"Do everything without complaining and arguing, so that no one can criticize you." (Philippians 2:14, NLT)
Do you enjoy waking up early? I don't. I emphasize with the psalmist when he writes: "I rise early, before the sun is up; I cry out for help and put my hope in your words." (Psalm 119:147, NLT)
It's not that I'm lazy, I'm... >Read More
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To Whom Will You Compare God?
"'To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?' says the Holy One." Isaiah 40:25
Other religious teachers pointed away from themselves. "Don't look at me," they said, "look at God."
Jesus took a different approach: He pointed to Himself.
If anyone else were to do so, we would rightly consider them to be quite arrogant. The apostle Paul,...... >Read More
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Are You Feeling Ignored?
"My people have committed two sins: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water." (Jeremiah 2:13)
Have you ever been ignored by someone that you care deeply about? To me being ignored feels like just about the worst pain imaginable. When a person who is special to... >Read More
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Refocus
Today is Halloween. What should our response be as Christians?
"What is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to him than a whole flock of sparrows." Luke 12:6-7
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Forgiveness: The Life of Peter
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Please open your Bible and read John 21:15-19.
Imagine Peter’s distress when Jesus told him, “Peter - this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know Me!"
“No!” Peter insisted. “Even if I have to die with you,...... >Read More
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The Difference Between Faith and Optimism
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"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see." Hebrews 11:1
Compare the definition of faith above with this dictionary definition of "optimism": "A tendency to expect the best...... >Read More
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Making Use of God's Kindness
"We work together with God, and we beg you to make good... >more
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