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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Excerpted from Room with a View of Eternity ~The Last Will and Testament of the Lord Jesus Christ, by Shari Abbott and Alex McFarland When Jesus said, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Watch the Video Below: The Hope of Easter] Two More Reasons a Thursday Crucifixion Fits with What the Bible Teaches If you have not read Reason #1 that gives an answer to the question, “Was Jesus crucified...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Matthew 5, we have the most beautiful explanation of the attitudes we are to be in life. Take a minute and refresh your memory of the Beatitudes that Jesus gave us. Sadly, the world has a very different...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. John Newton was born in London, in 1725. His father was a shipmaster, and at the age of 11 Newton joined his father and became a sailor. He went on to became the captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing was written by Robert Robinson (1735 – 1790). Robinson was a Baptist scholar and hymn writer. His story is an interesting one of a man destined for lawlessness and doom but saved...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The word “fidelity” is not often used today. We often hear of infidelity, especially in reference to a person being unfaithful to his or her spouse. But what about “fidelity?” It’s a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Watch below the video illustrating the story of Horatio Spafford and his hymn, “It is Well with My Soul.”]] Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago businessman and lawyer, married with...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. John 12:20-21 Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast. Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Frances Jane van Alstyne, more commonly known as Fanny Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, with more...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. (Download the checklist document of names and titles for Jesus, below.) Lent is one of the oldest Christian practices, dating back to the first-century church. However, Lent wasn’t formally declared a church...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Check out our “Get Started List for Lent” (below). Lent begins a season of 40 days prior to Easter Sunday. It is intended to be a time of reflection and preparation to celebrate Easter, much in the same...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. 2 Corinthians 12:7 “Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We all experience challenges in life. If life is not tough for you right now, just wait. I’m sure you know that it will be soon. I don’t mean to sound pessimistic, but you know it’s true....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When fear grips us, where do we look? The Bible teaches us a great lesson about the importance of looking to Jesus (don’t miss the video below). Peter’s Fear When I think of mind-controlling fear that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The world uses the word “love” very loosely. We love chocolate, we love our car, we love a TV show. The list goes on and on. We hear the word “love” being used in ways that diminish its...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When we are afraid, when we make mistakes, when we’re broken, when we offend, when we do harm… what can love do? (Also Read and Watch: Fear He is a Liar) When we are afraid, love casts out fear.1 John 4:18 ...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There’s a song from the 1960s that posed a most profound question, “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” The lyrics are secular, but the refrain is hauntingly provocative: What’s love got to do,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Fear is an infectious disease that doesn’t kill the body but rather controls the mind, crushes the soul, and hardens the heart. Fear is not of faith. Rather, it is one of Satan’s greatest tools to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted.” Isaiah 66:13 The condescending love of God to sinners is most astonishing. Though He is the High and Lofty One, yet...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Eschatology is the study of end times.Both the Bible and the Quran have very clear end-times prophecies.So how do Christian eschatology and Islamic eschatology differ? ***A Hidden Message in Psalm 23?*** Hidden...
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