Our ascending Savior's victorious body language in Luke 24 sets the tone for the Christian life.
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“It’s the little things in life.” Those words are part and parcel to many a quip or quote. And interestingly, people take it many ways.
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I’ll never forget sitting across from her trying to explain the gospel. Mary was the president of the condo association I had been doing grounds work for during my second year at Seminary. I had been praying...
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“It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for all your life.” That quote comes from Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian nurse most famous for promoting an alternative method of treating polio.
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The antidote for a control complex is learning the blessed freedom of dependence, the freedom found in trusting God’s control.
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I wonder what Festus did to deserve this? Of all the places in the Roman Empire to be made governor, this had to be the worst.
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Four sermonettes based on a compilation of the Easter gospels. He has risen! Alleluia!
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Blood and sacrifice are so removed from our normal experience. But when a conscience needs cleansing, a blood sacrifice is the only thing that will suffice.
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Advertisers love to use words like “better,” or “new and improved,” to entice people into purchasing their products. The problem is that the promise doesn’t always pan out.
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In the Bible, humility is something associated with glory and exaltation. In fact, humility leads to victory. Nothing demonstrates more clearly than the first Palm Sunday, 2000 years ago.
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At the cross, in the cutting of the New Covenant in Jesus’ very blood, God’s love and law are reconciled and we belong to him.
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