Tag: Christ
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Light Has Come
Did you miss it? Did you miss the Good News of Christmas? How we take the Christmas season for granted! Yet centuries had passed in darkness while God kept silent. Interesting Facts About Isaiah Barnes’ Bible Charts MEANING: Isaiah means “Yahweh is salvation.” AUTHOR: Isaiah TIME WRITTEN: Isaiah’s long ministry ranged from 740 B.C. to 680…
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Hate
Paris – 13 November, 2015 It seems that hatred headlines will overwhelm the news once more. Not that it ever left our consciousness, but often hate will lose momentum in the mundane or even be displaced by love’s compassion. Desperate followers of evil men willingly sacrifice innocents by the intentional lie-driven sacrifices for the glory of their own…
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a 21st c. Tempest
And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. – Mat. 8:24 KJV It seems the winds of change come upon us suddenly and violently. We resist the inevitable, either turning toward the strong winds of change or looking aimlessly askance at the…
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Crushed
Let’s get something straight: You are not good enough for Heaven. I am not even good enough for my church, my wife or my child. If we cannot do enough good works to earn our place with a Holy God, how will we ever pay what we owe for our many sins? Answer: We can not.…
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Israel’s First King – 3
And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. – 1 Samuel 12:21 Good advice for an aspiring politician (prospective leader of the people), is it not? A young Saul is anointed King of Israel and the heavy mantle of leadership soon burdens Saul’s shoulders. 1…
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Interrupting Jesus 12 – interrupting sin
`… to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy… build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince… the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in…