In my travels, I am always amazed at the koinonia of the Spirit experienced by believers who gather around the Word of God. Loved ones may have rejected them for their faith, but a much larger spiritual family readily embraced them when they came together with like-minded believers. Koinonia is strange sounding to our English ears, but this New Testament Greek word for Christian fellowship sets us apart from every ...
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Jim Cymbala, author of Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire, once said, “The great battle of our spiritual lives is ‘Will you believe?’ It is not, ‘Will you try harder?’ or ‘Can you make yourself worthy?’ It is squarely a matter of believing that God will do what only he can do.”
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Being a super high-achiever, I must confess I find it difficult to receive from others. Really difficult. Like you, I’m usually on the giving end, not the receiving. My pride fights hard to stay intact.
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Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” —John 20:1–2 NLT
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ stands alone as the single most important event in human history. April 13, 32 A.D. dawned like no other and turned the world on its ear—Jesus’ tomb sat empty. But that morning, Jesus’ loyal disciples sat in a cloud of doubt brought on by the difficulty of what they perceived to be true.
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By my early thirties, I started to ache for a relationship with my dad. At that point, we barely saw each other beyond Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July. After much prayer, I invited my dad to lunch on his birthday. We had a great time, and it became an annual tradition. A few years into this, we left the cash register and walked to our vehicles, which were ...
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Philippians 2:10 “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth” Mark 28:18-20 “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name oft he Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I ...
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Do you ever read the Bible and think to yourself ‘I would have been different! I’d have never denied knowing Jesus like Peter did!” Or maybe you read in the Old Testament about God’s people forgetting everything that he had done to lead them out of captivity, and they begin to worship, of all things, a golden cow. You and I would never do that, right?! I have found that in ...
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One day, a certain rich man visited a rabbi, who took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. “Look out there through the glass window,” he said. The rich man looked into the street, “what do you see?” asked the rabbi.
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