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Embarrassed by Judgment: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:5b-8)

The judgment of God is perhaps for many of us the hardest aspect of the gospel to discuss. Maybe we aren’t even supposed to talk about it, or at least, that is the decision some have made. It puts

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A Brief Introduction: Daily Thoughts from Revelation (Revelation 1:4-5a)

Revelation is just that, a revealing of what must soon take place. God is telling His people something He has been wanting to explain since the very beginning. We know since Genesis 3:15 that God has been

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Divine Coincidences: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 17)

Lieutenant Commander Wade McClusky was leading his air group’s scout bombers on June 4, 1942 against the Japanese fleet near Midway but failed to find them until he located the Japanese destroyer

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The God Who Promises: Daily Thoughts from 2 Samuel (9)

Some years ago I received a promise from God that He would take care of me and my family in consequence of a difficult career decision. It was such a comfort. And He has done exactly as He promised. Perhaps

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He Is Greater Still: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 22)

It is only when our adversaries seem incapable of withstanding that we find God to be even more capable on our behalf. David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers

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Rescue Me, O My God: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 19)

To whom do you attribute rescue? My son-in-law was in a terrible car accident a couple of years ago. An Air Wing helicopter carried him to the Regional Medical Center. Emergency surgery took care of a

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The Invisible Principle Made Visible: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 2:27-36)

This principle, that God exalts the humble and abases the proud, does God always make it plain that this is what is going on? Or is it left to us to draw the logical conclusion, as we see arrogant men

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Whoever Humbles Himself: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 1)

There are certain inexorable principles operative in God’s world. One of these principles is that God determines who will be exalted and who will be abased, and this determination is made based on

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Whose Vineyard Is It?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 12:1-12)

If you were being opposed by people who had the power to really hurt you, how would you react?  Would you pull back?  Would you attack? Jesus was in the midst of the storm during Passion Week, his week

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Daily Thoughts from Mark: Temptation (Mark 1:12-13)

The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. (Mark

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Daily Thoughts from Jonah: God May Turn (Jonah 3)

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according

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Daily Thoughts from Jonah: Arise, Sleeper! (Jonah 1:4-16)

But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: When You Least Suspect It (Acts 25:1-27)

Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: God Our Refuge (Acts 23:12-35)

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests

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Daily Thoughts from Acts: God’s Hidden Purposes (Acts 12:12-25)

When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a

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