If you want to reestablish your relationship with God, when you pray, first of all begin with an exultation of God’s name. Second, that leads to an appreciation of God’s grace.
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God could have chosen anyone to announce the birth of Jesus, but He didn’t choose kings or rulers or the rich; He chose the lowest rung of Jewish society, the shepherds. Shepherds were despised in Jesus’s day. They worked with sheep. That means they smelled like sheep as well. Nobody wanted to be around the shepherds.
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A successful game plan for living above your circumstances takes a healthy disregard for the past. Paul said in Philippians 3:13: “Forgetting what lies behind . . .”
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The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.–Romans 1:18
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There is no contradiction between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Just like the New Testament, the Old Testament teaches there are not many ways to the true God–there is only one way. And we see that truth throughout the Old Testament. What themes of the Old Testament remind us that the old way was one way?
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Why should we choose companionship over loneliness? Companionship offers us protection when we are under siege. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:12, “If one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.”
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When the Israelites came to the Red Sea and had the impossible choice of drowning or dying, they came up with another option: complaining to their leader. Look at their words to Moses, dripping with sarcasm:
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In Romans 14, Paul was addressing a problem in the church in Rome regarding the issue of diet: what we eat and drink. In Romans 14:1-2, Paul said,
Read MoreMany of today’s best-selling Christian books are accounts of people who died, visited heaven, and returned to life to recount all they had seen in the next world. Do such experiences provide reliable information about that “place called heaven?” If not, are those who claim such experiences dishonest, demonic, or deluded? Today we are going to look at what the Bible says about those who claim to have already visited ...
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An atheist decided to go mountain climbing. As he was ascending the mountain, his foot slipped, and he began to fall. He desperately grabbed hold of a thin branch of a tree on the side of the cliff. Realizing he could not go up any farther and that the branch would not hold him much longer, the atheist did the unthinkable.
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