And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: “The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, ESV). The last letter of the Book of Revelation to the seven churches was written to Laodicea. We’ve heard the phrase “saving the best for last,” but this letter should be […]
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And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel
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Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:23-24, ESV, emphasis added). I just read an article from a sophisticated psychology journal that proclaimed procrastination is not laziness. Whew, my first, second, third, fourth,
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known (1 Corinthians 13:12, ESV). Riding my bike this week, crossing an open field, very gray, and then rays of sunlight through the clouds. I thought, “I can’t see
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Paul wrote to his disciple Timothy… When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments (2 Timothy 4:13, ESV, emphasis added). The Apostle Paul, suddenly arrested in Troas while staying at the house of Carpus, didn’t have time to bring his cloak that
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For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace (John 1:16, ESV). The Christian idea of grace is defined as giving without expecting anything in return. This concept is totally unique to the Bible. Years ago, the writer C.S. Lewis wandered into a British conference where experts were debating what belief was entirely
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And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens (Revelation 3:7, ESV). Philadelphia was the sixth waystation on the postal road from Ephesus to Laodicea. Whoever was delivering the Apostle
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The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:3 (ESV), “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received…” How many of us, having read 1 Corinthians, have thought, “What does the Apostle Paul say is ‘of first importance,’ not second place, not top three, or something that sooner or later we
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When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold. Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim (2 Samuel 5:17-18, ESV). Uh, oh! The Philistines are coming. To learn more
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Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, so that the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines forty years (Judges 13:1, NASB1995). If you were an Israelite in Biblical history, you would not want to hear the cry, “The Philistines are coming.” They were ferocious warriors and the Achilles’ heel
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