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The Ascension of Christ Acts 1:9-11 “What goes up still goes down / Where is heaven if the world is round? / The cosmonauts were first in space / to look for God, and find no trace”  (Children of Time).…
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Spirit Gives Birth to Spirit Acts 10:44-48 in Jesus’ famous discourse with Nicodemus (John 3:1-15),  he tells the great teacher of Israel that no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born from above, born “again.”  “That…
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Friends of God John 15:15-17 Remember what finally forced Pontius Pilate’s hand, and brought him to the decision to allow Jesus’ crucifixion?  It was the Jewish leaders’ accusation that, if Pilate let him go, he would no longer be Caesar’s…
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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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