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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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
Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, and His Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides Me there is no god.‘ Isaiah 44:6 When Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, was a university student, he lived in a boarding house.
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But Peter … said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, … heed my words. … this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; … I will show
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He has put all things under His feet and has made Him the Head over all things for the Church, which is His Body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:22-23 Richard G. Jordon once wrote a message that fits well for the theme of the Ascension (quoted in Pulpit Helps):
You are the salt of the earth, but it salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be trodden underfoot. Matthew 5:13-14 I grew up in a big city, so when my first parish was in a farmers retirement hamlet, there was
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It shall come to pass in the latter days that the Mountain of the House of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to
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“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In His days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the Name by which He will be
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