Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.” Matthew 22:29
In elementary school, I had a reputation for being strong. This did not come because I had muscles or was very athletic. It started one day in...
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Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called a house of...
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Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family. Mark 6:4
Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling completely misunderstood? Sometimes we can do our best to explain ourselves, yet still, we feel...
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“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.” Luke...
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But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. James 1:22
At its core, listening is a two-part process. First, listening requires actually hearing what someone has said. Simply listening, however, will only take us so...
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If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. 1 John...
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We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16
My brother caught his kids, my niece and nephew, Owen and Collins in a rare moment of playing sweetly together. If you are a parent...
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