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By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus It’s safe to say that the vast majority of Americans have seen the movie, The Wizard of Oz—and likely many times over. But have you ever looked at it and found a Christian message in the story? Let’s look at the story...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Remembering is the work of the redeemed. Forgetting is the root of apostasy and forgetting always precedes falling. Remembering is so vitally important to everyday life, but it’s something we usually take...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We are so often quick to say, “the devil made me do it?” But did he really? Should we attribute our sin to his tempting and what about our afflictions or trials? Do those come from spiritual attacks? [Note...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Job 1:10 Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. While reading Job...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus I recently read this story on a Facebook page. This story is guaranteed to touch your heart and create in you a desire to share God’s love with others. Now….before you go...
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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. 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.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. 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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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.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. 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.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...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Do you feel pain that causes you to groan? No surprise! Creation Groans Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. And we ought to be content with that! By James Smith, (1802—1862) “The Pastor’s Evening Visit” “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we...
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