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Missing
Ever felt like you merely drift from one environment to the next, putting up the appropriate mask and ticking the boxes? Who are you anyway? It is frightful to wonder - does any one really know who we are behind the externals?
A person can live their entire life allowing themselves to be defined by external circumstances or peer pressure. Who...
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8:20
Living Sacrifice
"If you haven't found something worth dying for, you haven't found something worth living for."
In Old Testament times, literal sacrifices were required for the atonement of sins. But, as the author of the New Testament book of Hebrews explains, "The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this...
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3:46
Open Your Eyes
Have you ever felt "alive but not really living" like the lyrics of this song? Or, as I've heard it joked before, "He's not dead, but he certainly has no life."
Sometimes we get so caught up in the daily drudgery of our lives that we miss everything that's going on around us. Is it possible that you've been missing the grand story that's being...
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1:22
Best Church Ever?
I wonder what the first-century Christians would think about a church that is basically a social club? I can understand why people would want a church that is comfortable, but maybe we should start thinking about church as a verb instead of a noun; something that we actively participate in rather than a place we visit once a week.
I know there...
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3:19
Meditation: Isaiah 53
Hundreds of years before Jesus came to Earth, the prophecies of Isaiah foretold his coming in stunning detail. Meditate on the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning our glorious savior in this new video message. The text of the passage read in the video is below:
Further study: Go deeper to learn about the Christ who was prophesied by exploring...
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3:19
Meditation
This video recites Isaiah 52:12-53:14, verses from the Hebrew Bible which have a critical significance. Written hundreds of years before Jesus' birth, they foretell his coming in stunning detail.
Louis Lapides is Jewish, and was raised according Jewish traditions, educated in the Jewish faith. But after a wild variety of life experiences, he...
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Life to the Fullest After Retirement
Imagine that you have 25 minutes left, the game is tied, you have two choices: Give up because you are exhausted, or reach deep down inside for your last scrap of strength and finish the game well.
That's the picture Fred paints for the men he meets with. Life after 50 is all about finishing well as you prepare to retire and move into the next...
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