Tag: hope
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Biblical Storytelling and You
2Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.–Proverbs 27 I co-lead a Griefshare support group at my church. And we have a basic principle: DON’T SHARE ANYONE ELSE’S GRIEF STORY. Let that person share their own story if they want to. You are encouraged to share your…
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Don’t Give Up!
9And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.—Galatians 6 I once pastored a slowly-ending small church for its final 10 years. And during some of those leaner, depressing years various people questioned why we still existed. I remember church meetings when…
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A Difficult Analogy to Start Your Thanksgiving!
28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman…
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The Curse [1-minute read]
10For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” 11Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live…
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Two Questions About Justification [1-minute read]
16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.–Galatians 2…
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Covered [1-minute read]
34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.36Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel…
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Generational Sin [1-minute read]
6The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the…
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Holy to the LORD
36“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’ –Exodus 28 Here is another verse of the Bible that helps us to understand what ‘holy’ means. I underlined a portion for us. You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have…
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God Leaves the Light On [1-minute read]
20“You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn. 21In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It…
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Jesus and the Veil [1-minute read]
33And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. 34You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.–Exodus 26 And Jesus cried…
Joel M Bradshaw 