Keep My Commandments John 15:9-11 “If you don’t do what I want, I won’t be your friend anymore.” Variations on that line have been heard, I imagine, on playgrounds all around the world. I’ve certainly heard the line in my house. The…
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Praise, Musically Speaking Psalm 150 During the time of the Reformation there arose the question of how to offer worship to God. Some Protestant Reformers believed that only psalms should be used in worship, and that even these should only…
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God is Love 1 John 4:7-10 To say that something is something else is to make an “identity statement.” There are actually very few “identity statements” make in the Bible regarding God. We know that God is spirit (John 4:24) for example,…
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Testing the Spirits 1 John 4:1-3 I remember attending a conference for youth workers where someone asked, “who was the most spiritual man in the Bible?” Some answered Jesus of course, or John the Baptist or Moses. The answer he…
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Gospel, Belief, Baptism Acts 8:34-38 What does “mission work” look like? I often get asked that, as someone who serves as a missionary. In this passage the entire “mission endeavor” is boiled down to four verses. The eunuch is reading God’s…
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Isaiah Saw Christ Acts 8:29-33 Many evangelists give out New Testaments to non-Christians, in order to share God’s Word and the Gospel. The idea is that if people start at the beginning of the Bible, with the Old Testament, they might never get…
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I Am the True Vine John 15:1-2 The trunk of the tree is hardest to cut down, and anyone who has tried to get rid of a stump knows just how hard that can be. The “vine” that Jesus compares himself…
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