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Living Hope at Christmas
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A friend wrote to me recently that “holidays pick grief scabs.” Is this Christmas picking yours?
The Happiest Day Ever!
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What has been the happiest day of your life? On January 23, 2021, my daughter got married in a small masked ceremony in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. After the wedding, as I danced the night away with our immediate family and the happy couple’s closest friends, my brother hugged me and said he had never seen me so happy.
Christmas cancels death's reign
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So what does reigning in life mean when death looms as large as it does in our world right now? I think one thing it means is celebrating Christmas. Celebrating Christmas is to dare to express real hope in the midst of a world that is perishing. Celebrating Christmas means to proclaim the truth that death’s days are numbered and with every mustard seed of faith in the finished work of Christ, yet another eternal soul is freed from death’s tyranny and gifted the very righteousness of Jesus Christ. Celebrating Christmas is to offer our friends and neighbors God’s abundant provision for their lives through our testimony.
Who is the Shepherd?
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“He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.” Isaiah 40:11 “ What a promise! I remember finding this little gem in scripture. I remember how it felt for the Holy Spirit in me to grab ahold of the words on the page and say… this right here for you today! It’s a verse we highlight and date and text to our friends in the trenches of parenting. It’s a verse that causes us to say, “Yes! this is a...
Father's House is Hope for Today & Tomorrow
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What does it change for you the God has built a room in His house for you? A place where you can have a home that will never perish, spoil or fade? The builder has the best taste, an unlimited budget, and access to all wisdom and knowledge. The architect also designed the Grand Canyon, the Gulf of Mexico, the Serengeti, the Great Barrier Reef, the human body, the sun, moon and stars, every bird, flower, fish, animal, plant and so on. What does it change for your perspective that Jesus has gone ahead to prepare your place in God’s great house and will return to take you to inhabit it personally, specifically, forever because He wants you to be where He is?