Tag: resurrection
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Is Your Faith Futile?
If in Christ we have hoped in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 1 Corinthians 15:19 Walk up to an unbeliever and tell them, ‘Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.’ What will they think? What will they say? Will an unbeliever have hope in the resurrection?…
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Three Widows & a Widower
Fifteen years ago I became a widower. (We had been married more than two decades.) I know personally the loss of the widow (& widower). Jesus spoke of three widows: one, in a parable on the persistence of prayer to God one, of an unnamed widow who sacrificed only two mites to God at the Temple (leptons…
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Sanctuary
Some refer to the ‘place’ where the church shares in corporate worship as family of Christ Jesus as “the sanctuary.” (Of course, the “church” is the worshipers.) Exodus 25:8 KJV And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. The place may be worthy of the grandeur of the Living God or the place…
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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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Daleth
Psalm 119 English Standard Version (ESV) Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet Daleth 25 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word! Genesis 2:7 KJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 3:19 KJV In…
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Time After Time
Death is never so real as when a soul is torn from you or is life so temporal as when death overcomes your loved one. Ignore it as we will, we will die and we can only watch our loved ones wither into dust or be taken from us. A flesh falters and bones do…
