Tag: hope
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Funeral Perspective
2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.3Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4The heart of the wise is in…
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Don’t Live for Your Appetite
7All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.–Ecclesiastes 6 I remember a time when my wife took me to a sushi buffet. It was expensive and so I ate until I was stuffed. I was so full that it hurt. I thought I even was going to get…
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The Justice Perspective
16Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 17I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.–Ecclesiastes 3 It’s easy to look…
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Messiah’s Mercy
35As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 36When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. 37They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” 38He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 39Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be…
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4 Thoughts on Hell
19“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22The poor man…
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What Sinner Has Hope?
1Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”–Luke 15 The only sinner that has hope is the Prodigal. Be like him. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired…
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Nursing Home Theology
29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.–Luke 12 I have the pleasure of visiting a…
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Who do you say that Jesus is?
18Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?” 19And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.” 20Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I…
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Identity and Your Past
39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”… …48And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.” 49Then those who were at table with…
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Don’t Weep
11Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town…
Joel M Bradshaw 