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The Strange Power of a Meal: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 14:22-25)

What does it mean when you invite someone into your home for a meal?  What level of relationship is symbolized?  Eating together is a powerful witness to intimacy or at least the desire for intimacy. 

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Daily Thoughts from Zechariah: Remove the Filthy Garments From Him (Zechariah 3)

Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD

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Daily Thoughts From Acts: Informal Missionaries (Acts 1:1-3)

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he

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Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Water and Blood (5:6-12)

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Water and Blood This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because

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Daily Thoughts from 1 John: First Love (4:7-12)

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: First Love Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because

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Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Falling on a Grenade (3:16-18)

Daily Thoughts from 1 John: Falling on a Grenade By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Your Advocate (32:1-14)

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Your Advocate (32:1-14)

Satan accuses us day and night before our God (Revelation 12:10).  But we’re told that Jesus always lives to make intercession for us (Hebrews 7:25; Romans 8:34).

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Getting Your Permanent Forgiveness (27:1-8)

The inability of the sacrifices to truly cleanse the conscience of the offerer was illustrated over and over by the necessity of repeating the sacrifice. Jesus’ sacrifice covers all our sins once

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: The Tabernacling God (26)

“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them… “You shall also

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: The Place of Atonement (25:10-22)

Jesus has become the place where the blood was sprinkled, his own blood, as the sacrifice that once and for all purchased forgiveness for those who believe.

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Obedience and Seeing God (24)

God longs to fellowship with His people but it is a fellowship which requires obedience and sacrifice.

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Consecrated Children (13:1-16)

We recognized that every child belonged to God and we were stewards charged with raising each child in God’s ways.  We are each consecrated to Him.

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: The Journey (12:21-51)

We are on a journey toward Christlikeness and we are on this journey as a family of believers.

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Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Re-Enacted Power (12:14-20)

God knows how powerfully a re-enacted rite such as this is to forming our understanding of and remembrance of what matters most.

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