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Parables: How to be Generous

  “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Luke 12:13   Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” Then he...

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Parables: Lord's Supper

  It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2   ...

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Parables: Sower and the Seed

  "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among ...

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Parables: Shrewd Manager

  “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and a...

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Parables: Pay Them All The Same

  Envy is resenting God’s goodness in someone else’s life while at the same time ignoring God’s goodness in my life.   “For the kingdom of...

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Parables: The King is Coming

  “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him." 1 Corinthians 2:9 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me… I...

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Parables: The Persistent Widow and the Wicked Judge

  Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea...

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Why Try: Does God Still Love Me?

  If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, give us all thi...

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Why Try: What Good Can God Bring From My Pain?

  Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Romans 8:17 ...

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How To Pray When God Feels Silent

  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Psalm 22:1–2 ...

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