Tag: gratitude
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Why Is Someone a Child of God?
1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we…
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Complaint [1-minute read]
4The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. 6But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”–Numbers 11…
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Bring Blessing [1-minute read]
25Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,and one who waters will himself be watered.–Proverbs 11
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Money to Remember [1-minute read]
16You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”–Exodus 30 The purpose of this tax was revealed in the end of…
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Costly Devotion
3Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.–John 12 There is no evidence in the text that Mary (or any of the disciples) knew Jesus was going to soon…
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Our Service to God
6Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 7a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 8And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9For this could have been sold…
Joel M Bradshaw 