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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Did you set New Year’s resolutions? It’s five weeks into the New Year. Have you blown them already? New Year’s resolutions are really nothing more than goals to live a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Scroll down to watch a movie clip and hear Joni Eareckson Tada sing the song. As Christians, we know and understand the meaning of the words “alone yet not alone.” From Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic who...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Every year Hollywood releases a list of prominent celebrities who have departed this earth. Many newspapers and magazines also publish lists of notable deaths. Reasons for Hope* Jesus would like to take a minute...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Perhaps you have heard the simple answer to this question. It is often said that the best Bible to read is the one that you WILL read. While this is true, there are a number of things one should consider in...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. His lord said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.” Matthew 25:21 Are you waiting for your...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We received this email, and because of its nature, we responded directly to the writer at the time. Because this is such an important subject, we are sharing our answer here. How can we know our salvation is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus In our last Got Questions we answered, “How did Jesus become a man?” The question “why did Jesus become a man?” is correctly answered with God’s purpose and plan of...
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By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus White is such a beautiful color. Or is it? Is it really a color, or is it the purity of not being tainted by a color. With paints, if you add just a smidgen of another color to white it takes on the hue of the color added....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS (Matthew 1:21) At this time of year many ask, “how did God become a man? What happened to make it...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Christmas There’s a consensus among many Bible students that Jesus was not born on, or even around, December 25. It’s believed to be much more likely that He was born in September at the time of the Feast of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Although December 25th is the day that we celebrate the birth of our Lord, most Bible students understand that it is not likely the date on which Jesus was born. We should not be surprised that the Bible...
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Excerpt from Why the Butterfly? Rightly Remembering Jesus During this hectic time, take a few minutes to pause and reflect on the magnitude of God’s mercy and grace. His gift of sacrifice didn’t start at the cross. It was predestined from before the foundation of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51 is often called “The Repenter’s Psalm.” In this psalm, King David pleads for...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The temptations of Jesus are recorded in detail in Matthew 4 and Luke 4. The Bible tells that what took place was not by chance, but by the providential will of God: Matthew 4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Treasure can be thought of as anything that is considered to be precious or to have great value. We all must define what the treasures are in our lives, and how they affect...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The 2 Samuel 21:19 verse seems to contradict the account in 1 Samuel 17 that tells it was David who killed Goliath. However, there are explanations that help to clarify this. First, we begin with an understanding...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (Galatians 6:14) The cross was a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We asked. You responded. And now we share what you had to say. Read through the responses we received on Facebook and in emails. Be sure to read to the end. The last response contains 16 reasons why we should...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Luke 19:41-42 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment!” Hebrews 9:27 This is a somber thought. Life moves quickly and none of us know the moment...