Creation Can’t But Redemption Can!

When Adam sinned and fell, everything about creation fell. Yet, people today are still putting their trust in creation. For example, they try to become healthy by eating what is called the “Eden diet” — vegetables and no meat. They are acting as if creation did not fall, as if there is still hope in it. They also forget that there are people who...

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Covered With Jesus’ Robe Of Righteousness

Covered With Jesus’ Robe Of Righteousness Leviticus 1:6 6And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. Do you know who in the Bible first clothed man with coats of skin? It was God Almighty Himself, when He found Adam and Eve hiding behind the bushes after hearing His voice! They had become fearful and conscious that they...

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Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?

“Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathaniel asked. - John 1:46 If anyone ever came from a Podunk town, it was Jesus. Nazareth, where Jesus grew up, sat on a hillside in a remote valley southwest of the Sea of Galilee. Along one of its dusty alleyways, lined with sun-baked mud walls, Jesus’ father ran a carpenter’s shop. Certainly...

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God makes us new

If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! - 2 Corinthians 5:17 Do you ever wish you could have a “do-over,” a chance to go back and do something differently, to avoid a big mistake you made? Most of us can recall times when we did something foolish or sinful. We wish we could take back that one...

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Jesus, you rule over all things by your Word and Spirit

“What is this? A new teaching—and with authority!” —Mark 1:27 When Jesus comes on the scene, something new happens. Our hope, our longing for change, takes on a different shape. Hurting people, sinful temptations, human brokenness, and disease are confronted with authority. The people in this story recognized Jesus’ authority in regard to two...

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“Are we there yet?”

Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him. (Mark 1:3)  “Are we there yet?” Parents often hear these words from their children as their family travels on a long trip—or even a short one. Young children have an underdeveloped sense of time and distance that prevents them from understanding how long a journey will take. God’s people...

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Be Full Of The Consciousness Of God

1 Corinthians 2:12 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. I believe that you know the story of David the shepherd boy who defeated the 10-foot-tall Goliath, a champion warrior. Ever wondered why David succeeded while the others...

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