Tag: grief
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He was what? A Man of sorrows?
I’m beginning to fear that I may be becoming like Jesus in ways I had not anticipated. The morose line from scripture which stalks my days? He was a man of sorrows… Yeshaiya 53:3 Think about living like the Messiah of mankind. Forgiving? Sure. Sometimes I want to forgive others. Loving? Definitely! The Lord Jesus…
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Witnesses to Jesus Risen! – Peter
“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. John 21:12 CSB 3 Questions & more.. As you read previously in Witnesses to Jesus Risen! – Simon Peter this third encounter of the Disciples with the risen Jesus includes John…
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Death’s Melancholy: Resurrection’s Rapture
“Then beginning with the scriptures of Moses and from all the prophets he uncovered the things concerning himself.” – the good news of Luke 24:27 Scripture taught along a road from Jerusalem One of the the most remarkable verses in scripture comes to us from witnesses on a road to Emmaus from Jerusalem. Though less…
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Endurance Toward the Cross
…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame… Hebrews 12:1b-2a Jesus had walked… for three years (by comparison to eternity, a blink of an eye). Having been handed the…
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Resurrection Before Jesus
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son Luke 7:11 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and…
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Redemption
I want to tell you a story of an old woman and one of a young woman; a story of relationship and temptation. 2 Samuel 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David. Scene I is in Jerusalem, about a thousand years or ten centuries after this record of Samuel from…
