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Four Nameless Unsung Heroes
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.” Mark 2:5 Now, I don’t know if I have mentioned here that I didn’t grow up going to church and hearing Bible stories. Of course, over the years I have read and heard a great deal of them, but I think the…
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No Do-Overs in Real Life
I feel safe in saying there isn’t one of us who hasn’t made rash decisions driven by emotions that we wish we could go back and change. Oh, it feels so right at the time – almost good – but as the course of our brash actions plays out, we wish we could erase those words or change that…
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Hypocrite? Mwhaaa?
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! …
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Whose in Charge? Oh, My!
1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.[a] 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. Something odd struck me as I read these verses…
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I’ve Got The Best “Job” Ever – On His Behalf!!!
And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:5-6 I didn’t…
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Least of all…..
But many who are the greatest now will be least important then and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then. Matthew 19:30 And who are the “least important”? And who are the “greatest”? This is, of course, a matter of opinion. So who gets to decide? What criteria should be used? I have the privilege…
