In this passage, Peter calls us to love our unseen Savior with joyful rejoicing. He assumes because of our love we will choose joy. Let’s look deeper at the responses we should have to Christ…
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This Christmas season I read Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol to my kids for the first time. It’s been a fantastic experience for me (and it seems like for them, at least the older ones), and…
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The gospel. A word used so often it’s become part of our everyday English vocabulary. But how often do you think about what the word really means, or why the writers of the New Testament…
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(This is the last in the Three Essential Habits series – an excerpt from an upcoming chivalry devotional.) “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope…
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(This is a continuation of the Three Essential Habits series – an excerpt from an upcoming chivalry devotional.) “And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.” –Psalm 107:22 We…
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(This is a continuation of the Three Essential Habits series – an excerpt from an upcoming chivalry devotional.) “For this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the…
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“But it’s so hard, you knowTo believe on your ownThat you’ll be okayWhen sorrow keeps chasing me down” There is a good thing about being an “artistic soul” who feels acutely the stark fallenness of…
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“She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.” – Luke 2:7 (NLT)…
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“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,…
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Death. It’s unnatural. It’s horrible. It ought to break our hearts. It ought to make us angry. I’ve been thinking about death lately. For many of us the greatest dread we feel is not in…
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