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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“Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In…
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Sometimes, realizing I am so incredibly blessed hits like a wrecking ball. It’s a truth that upsets my settled habits of anxiety and stress. Life itself is a great and undeserved gift. How many of…
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Is your heart broken? Unto you is born this day: One who can mend it and make it greater, One who will some glorious day wipe away all the tears of His saint until your…
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“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” –Mark 11:24 How often we underestimate the value and the power of prayer! The words of Christ in Mark…
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I was awake at 12:30 in the morning a few days ago, my mind bursting with memories from my past, many of which feel like seeing the biography of another man’s life merely because it’s…
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“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.…
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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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Do you have the heart of a hero? Do you have the spirit of a superhero? My favorite superhero stories are the ones in which the protagonist has no supernatural ability, no bizarre biologic mutation.…
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Rain. It is often thought of as depressing. But did you know the Bible often talks of rain as a good thing, a sign of God’s mercy? Where you are when it’s raining can make…
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