Behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon–possessed.” Matthew 15:22 My dad’s sermon startled me. I have been scanning files into the computer over the last years and so there are about 30 files […]
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Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. … Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? … Tell Me, if you know all this. Job 38:4,17-18 A Louise Allen Harris wrote about
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Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price. Isaiah 55:1 Virginia Burke, a chaplain at the Good Samaritan Society assisted living facilities, once wrote in a devotion on this passage: One Sunday morning, Karl
But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten. But, O LORD of hosts, You Who test the righteous, and see the mind and heart, let me
For when we were still helplessly feeble, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly… while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His Blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. … And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. … God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. … Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Genesis
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Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His Glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. I Peter 4:12-13 Many times In
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Jesus said, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6 In a world where there are so many ideas competing to reveal the way to humanity’s eternal bliss, how dare Jesus arrogantly declare that He not only has the way, but is
The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” John 20:25 It seems
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When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” Matthew 27:54 On one occasion Michelangelo turned to his fellow artists and said with frustration in his voice, “Why do
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