Life

The Best Part

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 […]

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Inquiring Minds Want To Know

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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Utterly New Creation

If you love Me, keep My commandments. … He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”   John 14:15, 21 What a journey we have experienced through the lessons

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Unique Realities

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

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The Door to Abundance

I am the Door; if any one enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.  The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.                      John 10:9-10 Most of us are familiar with the six-panel wooden

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Opened All The Scriptures Concerning Himself

But we were hoping that it was He Who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.  Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.  When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had

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Thomas, Peter, Us – Confronting the Resurrection

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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Meeting Them, Jesus Said, “Rejoice!”

 The angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus Who was crucified.  He is not here; for He is risen, as He said.  Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”                      Matthew 28:5-6 In a small town in medieval Germany, Franz was rounding a corner

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But God *Celebrates* the Cross – Good Friday

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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You are There – Maundy Thursday

…”Take, eat; this is My Body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” … “This cup is the New Covenant in My Blood.  This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”                             I Corinthians 11:24-25 So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall

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