by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Listening to an online sermon many years ago, I heard a song about the seven sayings of Jesus from the cross. The words are from the perspective of the Roman centurion who stood at the foot of the cross and...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Leonard Cohen wrote the song “Hallelujah” with a beautiful melody that stirs the soul and warms the heart. But is the song Hallelujah appropriate for church? What do we know about the song and the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Recently, I received an email from Julia, a long-time reader of Reasons for Hope* Jesus resources. She has been defending God’s truth regarding Jesus’ incarnation and asked about our reasons to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. As I began to write about broken hearts, a song kept running through my mind (watch the song video below). We’ll look at the song lyrics, and you can watch the song video, but first, let’s consider...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Isaiah, God prophecies that He will create new heavens along with the new earth: Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. God also...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, behaviors, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities (e.g. animals, objects, even cartoon characters). The term “anthropomorphism” is a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Sons of God is a term used of several people groups in the Bible. The simple answer to why Christians are called sons of God is because Christians are born of God. That makes us “sons” (generically…it also...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We end our series of articles during the month of love (February) with a teaching from a long-departed man who is one of “the great cloud of witnesses” (Heb 12:1), those who have gone before us into...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Beatles sang, “All you need is love,” and God pretty much says the same thing but not in so few words. The love of Jesus is extravagant love. It is beyond our comprehension. But it is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Your Greatest Stewardship – Keeping Your Heart Guarding our hearts is a command and a responsibility for every Christian. It’s found in the book of Proverbs. Keeping one’s heart truly is our greatest...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. As finite and sinful human beings, trying to understand the perfect, unconditional, generous, and gracious love of our infinite God is very difficult. In fact, we can never fully understand it because, unlike...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The History of Groundhog Day February 2nd being designated as Groundhog Day is believed to have originated in Pennsylvania in the 18th -19th century. It is said to have derived from ancient European weather lore,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Every Christian already has peace with God, but the peace of God is a free-will choice. Some will say there are three kinds of peace: peace with, from, and of God. But there are really only two because all true...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. January 22nd is the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the case in which the US Supreme Court ruled on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. In doing so, on...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Downloadable PDF of the Salvation Bell below] The New Year has come and, for many, the memory of Christmas has already faded away. With each new day comes a fresh new hope for a year of joy and peace. A Word of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Celebrating the new year is biblical, but how you celebrate might not be. The nation of Israel celebrated the advent of the new year, and they did so in the way God prescribed. As we all know, many of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A Very Special Christmas What If You Had Been There When Jesus Was Born? Put yourself at the cradle and consider what your heart feels. Set your eyes on Jesus. Consider what it might have been like if you had...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. My friend Tad just lost his 19 month battle with pancreatic cancer. In sorrow and sadness, with hope and rejoicing, we remember that he just won the greatest victory of his life. He’s been crowned with the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We don’t often think in terms of “taking” but we do think about Jesus giving. Taking is nothing more than accepting and receiving that which Jesus gives. So learn to take this Advent season. The...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’ve already addressed the Parable of the Faithful and Unfaithful Servants found in Matthew 25. We gave reasons why a Christian will never hear, “…you wicked and lazy servant…” (Matt 25:26). If you...
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